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The December 1986 murder of Mount Pleasant’s mayor at a City Council meeting taught his successor, former Iowa Secretary of Agriculture and former Iowa Gov.
Iowa’s roads in the 1850s were challenges for horses, oxen or humans regardless of the season. Other states had experimented with plank roads and found them to be quite satisfactory — they were sturdy, almost impervious to bad weather, and they could be money makers.
