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Prospect Park file : Interstate route 94 Document consists of a typescript letter to Minnesota Gov. Orville E. Freeman, a table of contents from which the first two leaves are missing, and copies of various letters, newspaper articles, memoranda, and other items from 1956-1960 related to a grassroots effort to save the Glendale neighborhood and nearby Prospect Park from encroachment by proposed Interstate 94 construction.
Call Number: Reference-Noncirculating
Voices of Rondo by Cavett, Kate., Rondo Oral History Project
Call Number: F614.S4 V65 2005
ISBN: 9780929636481
Publication Date: 2005-09-01
How routing an interstate highway through South Minneapolis disrupted an African-American neighborhood by Lloyd, Ernest Lee In 1959, the Minnesota Department of Highways (MHD), renamed the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) in 1976, commenced the construction of Interstate 35W proceeding North from Richfield through South Minneapolis to Lake Street (the Richfield-Minneapolis segment) which razed more than 50 square blocks of homes and businesses. The segment of this vast project built between Stevens Avenue South and Second Avenue South, completed in 1967, was part of the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways enacted by Congress in 1956. An area contiguous to the Interstate 35W project was located from Stevens Avenue South on the West, to Nicollet Avenue on the East, North to East 38th Street and South to East 42nd Street is identified as the researcher's 'Study Area'. This community was known as an African-American 'middle-class' neighborhood in Minneapolis. Although Minneapolis's neighborhoods have changed in names and locations over time, and African-American citizens have populated areas to the North, South, and East of the study area, these geographic boundaries are the focus of this research project. The advent of Interstate highways brought enormous change to the state of Minnesota and its inhabitants. On one hand, the Interstate created safer, faster road transportation, transformed many communities and ignited economic development. On the other hand, the interstate left some communities mauled in economic chaos and fragmentation
Call Number: TE24.M6 I35W 201
Publication Date: 2013

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Vertical file relating to the history of interstate freeways in Minnesota Newspaper and journal articles, memoranda, timelines, bibliographies, and miscellany on the development of intercity freeways in Minneapolis-St. Paul in the 1950s-1970s, especially their effects on the Rondo, Merriam Park, Prospect Park, and other neighborhoods.
Call Number: Reference-Noncirculating
From footpaths to freeways : a survey of roads and highways in Minnesota by Katz, Yoʼel Foreword -- Introduction -- Minnesota Department of Transportation -- Center for Transportation Studies -- Timeline of state involvement in roads and highways -- ch. 1. Minnesota's early road history -- ch. 2. The push for good roads -- ch. 3. State-aid roads -- ch. 4. Construction, past and present -- ch. 5. Engineering the Interstate Highway System -- ch. 6. Minnesota's Interstate Freeways -- ch. 7. Twin Cities freeway system -- ch. 8. Twin Cities highways -- ch. 9. Along the way -- ch. 10. Maintenance, then and now -- ch. 11. Traffic congestion & mitigation -- ch. 12. Unique bridges -- ch. 13. The beauty of the road -- ch. 14. Mystery picture -- Bibliography -- Index.
Call Number: HE356.M6 K38 2009
Publication Date: 2009
Politics and freeways : building the Twin Cities interstate system by Cavanaugh, Patricia October 2006 Publication no. CURA 06-01
Call Number: HE356.5.T9 C38 2006
The development of the Minnesota road system by Larsen, Arthur J The development of the Minnesota road system, by Arthur J. Larsen. [St. Paul, Minnesota Historical Society, 1966] iv, 540 p. illus., maps. 28 cm. Thesis--University of Minnesota. Bibliography: p. [494]-540. Also available online. Roads Minnesota History. Internet resource. http://www.leg.state.mn.us/edocs/edocs.aspx?oclcnumber=2224562
Call Number: TE24.M6 L3 1966
Publication Date: 1966
Registered Minnesota auto trails, 1917-1931 These pages contain images of forms filed with the Minnesota Highway Commission and Minnesota Highway Department between the years of 1917 and 1931. The forms were submitted to register the names, symbols and general location of auto trails. The trails were established to direct motorists along the best routes to popular destinations. ONLINE ACCESS: http://www.dot.state.mn.us/library/reg-trails.html
Call Number: Internet resource; The original documents are kept at the Mn/DOT Library in the storage room.
The interstate era 1956-1976 by Morris, Michael T. Originally written to constitute chapter 5 of the author's thesis Before the interstate : the Minnesota Highway Department from 1921-1956.
Call Number: TE24.M6 M77 1990A
Publication Date: 1990