History
Originally, Iowa Highway 37 began at U.S. Route 75 in Onawa to U.S. Route 59 east of Earling. The westernmost 73⁄4 miles (12 km) of the route were overlapped by Iowa 175. In 1966, Iowa 37 was truncated to its current western end near the Maple River. In 1971, a new section of US 59 was opened one mile (1.6 km) to the west of the former alignment. As a result, Iowa 37 was extended north one mile and east 6 miles (9.7 km) to Irwin, absorbing Iowa 268 The section from US 59 to Irwin was short-lived. In 1980, the section east of US 59 was turned over to Shelby County.
Read more about this topic: Iowa Highway 37
Famous quotes containing the word history:
“History has neither the venerableness of antiquity, nor the freshness of the modern. It does as if it would go to the beginning of things, which natural history might with reason assume to do; but consider the Universal History, and then tell us,—when did burdock and plantain sprout first?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“As History stands, it is a sort of Chinese Play, without end and without lesson.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)
“The whole history of civilisation is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.”
—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)