One of the Burley farms along E-29 a mile and a quarter east of Milford School on the north side where Floyd and Ethel Davis lived in the fifties. This view shows the fine hardsurface road there, however, it also shows the lack of a shoulder on this road. The planning changed after this construction and when R-77 was built a few years later, broad, safer shoulders were put in place.
This brick home, a half mile west of Milford School along E-29, the Andrew Brodie farm of the sixties, sits along a fine hard surface road built in Sept and Oct of 1960. The camera is looking to the east and Milford School is on the very right.
Milford Twp from Nevada to the Story County Home was labeled "R". By 1973 this labeling system was replaced.
In 1956 the gravel road north on the far east side of Milford Twp from Hartland Rd (E-29 or 190th Street) to the road (E-18) that ran east-west from Ro- land to McCallsburg was paved. This was a continua- tion of the S-14 county road (620th Ave).
In 1957 the third hard surfaced road (R-63) went north from the southwest corner of Milford Twp for three miles to the intersection at Dayton Park; or, from thirteenth street of Ames (220th Street) to E-29 (190th Street) This was a relatively high use gravel road and was almost always a wash board that felt as though it was going to shake the wheels off the car.
Not until April and May of 1959 was the first hard surfaced road entirely within Milford Twp in place. The road that went east from Milford School for three miles to the intersection with S-14 was hard surfaced. This is a portion of the road known as Hartland Rd. (now E-29 or 190th Street)
The next summer, in Sept and Oct of 1960, according to the Story County records, three miles more of the Hartland Rd west from Milford School was hard surfaced. This ended the drop-off from the hard surfacing ending at Milford school, which had been the situa- tion for two summers and one winter. Most people that I visited with thought the black-top ended at Milford for a longer period of time than 18 or so months but the "official" records contradict this. Some thought the road west from Milford was graded and ditches widened in 1960 and then a year or two later the pavement was put in.
In 1967 the north-south road, R-77, one mile east of Milford School that ran straight north to Roland was graded and wider ditches were created. The intention was to hard surface this road with Portland cement the following summer but due to excessive rains in 1968 the paving project was postponed and done during the summer of 1969. This road is called R-77 or 600th Ave. This right-of-way had been widened in 1948 when the road was regraded. R-77 was resurfaced in 2006.
The road north of Dayton Park for a mile and then east to McFarland Park was hardsurfaced in 1984.
Also, in southeast Milford Twp there are two miles of sealcoated road that go to the site of the Story County Care Facility from S14. This work was first done in 1977 and then redone in 1986. This road apparently was redone to gravel in 2006.
Milford Twp shares 12 miles of hard surfaced border roads with its neighbors- (four with Franklin and six with Richland and two with Grant). Excluding Interstate 35 (I-35), Milford Twp has, within its borders, 9 « miles of hard surfaced roads.
There is a little over 6 « miles of Interstate 35 within Milford Twp This road was built in two segments- south of E-29 and north of E-29. South of E-29 the land was graded in 1965, culverts etc, were placed in 1966, the road was paved in 1967 and opened to traffic in 1968. North of E-29 every step was a year later, except the opening which also occurred in 1968. Part of the situation that caused this was the relocation of the survey to the east about a half mile because of the pro- posed construction of a lake on the South Skunk River near the north edge of Ames. This caused the construction of a good sized bridge over Bear Creek. During the winter of 1967-'68, even though I-35 had been paved as far as the E-29 exit, the northbound traffic was stil