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	High Priority Corridors @ AARoads.com: Avenue of the Saints (Corridor 2) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Much of the Avenue of the Saints in Missouri is already at expressway standards, except for some key areas north of Hannibal.
		In Iowa, the Avenue of the Saints is designated in its entirety as Iowa 27.
		In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the routing of the Avenue of the Saints Corridor in northeastern Iowa was also considered for the U.S. 52 corridor.
	www.aaroads.com /high-priority/corr02.html (3002 words)

	Iowa Department of Transportation
		The Avenue of the Saints, covering 536 miles from St. Paul, Minn., to St. Louis, Mo., was just a dream when it was proposed to Congress 20 years ago by Iowa community leaders.
		The Avenue of the Saints corridor is estimated to be the home of nearly 7 million people and 250,000 businesses and will help create new economic development opportunities for businesses and consumers alike, every inch of the way.
		The "Avenue of the Saints" nickname was coined by the late Ernie Hayes, a Mount Pleasant businessman, along with New Hampton banker Robert Rigler and Warren Dunham, former director of the Iowa Department of Transportation.
	www.dot.state.ia.us /saints/saints_history.htm (1537 words)

	Avenue of the Saints - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Avenue of the Saints was the idea of Mount Pleasant, Iowa businessman Ernest Hayes, who envisioned a four-lane highway between St. Paul and St. Louis in the 1980s.
		In 1990 the FHWA chose its route for the Avenue of the Saints.
		As of 2006, the Avenue of the Saints is open to four lanes from St. Paul to Wayland, Missouri, and from Canton, Missouri, to St. Louis.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Avenue_of_the_Saints (1177 words)

	Iowa Department of Transportation
		Ernie Hayes and the Avenue of the Saints
		Robert Rigler, a banker in New Hampton and a former chairman of the Iowa Transportation Commission, joined E.A. as co-chair of the Avenue of the Saints Steering Committee sometime in 1988 or 1989.
		In December 1991, the Avenue of the Saints' signs were unveiled in various Iowa towns along the way to show the route.
	www.dot.state.ia.us /saints/hayes.htm (680 words)

	Interstate 380 Iowa @ Interstate-Guide.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		U.S. 218 overlaps twice with the freeway, and it is cosigned with Iowa 27 (the Avenue of the Saints) for its entire length.
		The interchange with Interstate 80 is a cloverleaf.
		Iowa 27 follows the corridor of the Avenue of the Saints in the state of Iowa.
	www.interstate-guide.com /i-380_ia.html (1712 words)

	Iowans know have 268 reasons to travel : News : KHQA Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Iowa officials opened up the 268-mile Avenue of Saints the bisects the state. The state is celebrating the event all weekend with special events at businesses along the Highway.
		He says the Avenue of the Saints is important for the state's economic future.
		Although it's not directly on the Avenue of the Saints, Mayor Dave Gudgel says the project's completion is still a good thing for the city.
	www.khqa.com /news/news_story.aspx?id=11073 (387 words)

	Charles City, Iowa
		The Avenue of the Saints that provides a link between St. Louis and St. Paul also gave a shot in the arm to communities located along the highway - including Charles City.
		Tim Fox, executive director of the Charles City Area Development Corporation, said the presence of the Avenue of the Saints, from an industrial development perspective, enhances the community's ability to be competitive.
		The city secured an approval from the Iowa Department of Transportation for an extension of South Grand Avenue (U.S. 18/218) to the southeast exit of the Avenue of the Saints.
	www.masoncitynet.com /charlescity/story_template.php?audio=01.txt (1324 words)

	Quincy Herald Whig
		Avenue of the Saints badges and note pads line a table in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, Friday.
		U.S. 61 is the Missouri portion of the Avenue of the Saints.
		She said it could be called the Avenue of the Capitals, because it would link Jefferson City, Mo., and Des Moines, Iowa.
	www.whig.com /286348930752500.php (735 words)

	Iowans are blessed by opening to cars of Avenue of Saints
		DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - The Avenue of the Saints is now completely open to traffic in Iowa - officially capping one of the biggest road projects in state history.
		The Avenue of the Saints, extending 536 miles between St. Paul, Minn., and St. Louis, was just a dream when it was proposed to Congress by Iowans in the mid-1980s.
		A weekend celebration to mark the completion of the Saints project in Iowa is planned in more than 30 towns along the entire Iowa route from June 16 to 18, said transportation department spokeswoman Dena Gray-Fisher in Ames.
	www.columbiatribune.com /2006/May/20060526News010.asp (328 words)

	Urban St. Louis - View topic - redesignate as interstates
		The avenue of the Saints will be designated an interstate as soon as all segments are completed...this was always the plan.
		This is the Avenue of the Saints into Iowa on SR 27 the entire way to I-35 near Mason City.
		Actually, from the "avenue of the saints" - the old Hwy 218 around Mt. Pleasant, IA, about 35 miles north of the missouri border - there is a connection with Hwy 34 westbound that ultimately connects with Hwy 163 which runs you into Des Moines.
	www.urbanstl.com /viewtopic.php?p=47597 (2131 words)

	Keokuk's Gate City Daily Online
		Hulshof cited the importance of the safety and economic development aspects of the Avenue of the Saints project in Southeast Iowa and Northeast Missouri.
		He also cited the efforts of a group of high school students from Northeast Missouri who spearheaded an effort to finish the Avenue of the Saints as soon as possible due to the deaths of their classmates.
		Don Carmody of Mount Pleasant, chairman of the Avenue of the Saints Committee and member of the Iowa Department of Transportation Commission, thanked Department of Transportation personnel and highway commissioners from Iowa and Missouri.
	www.dailygate.com /articles/2004/12/06/news/news1.txt (957 words)

	Avenue of the Saints lake (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Saints Lake is a former DOT borrow pit formed during the construction of the Highway 218 bypass around Waverly.
		DNR Fisheries Biologists stocked Saints Lake with Channel Catfish and Bluegill in 1996 (November).
		In 1997 (July), Saints Lake was stocked with Largemouth Bass.
	www.co.bremer.ia.us /departments/conservation/saints_lake.htm (197 words)

	Route 61/27 Avenue of the Saints
		Avenue of The Saints will be complete in 2008!
		By 2008, the Avenue of the Saints will be completed - all the way from St. Louis, Missouri to St. Paul, Minnesota…almost 500 miles of four-lane highway connecting three states, making it safer and quicker for all motorists.
		The final 15 miles of four-lane highway is funded and construction has begun on the section in Lewis and Clark County.
	www.modot.org /northeast/61_27AveofSts.htm (136 words)

	Photo Gallery — The Avenue of the Saints
		One of many Avenue of the Saints markers; this one was found on US 218 in Mount Pleasant in 1998.
		While the Avenue of the Saints has extended from I-380 in both directions since the routing was approved in 1990, a connection between Charles City and I-35 was completed on October 20, 2000, with the completion of the segment between the Mason City and Charles City bypasses.
		The Avenue of the Saints is two lanes from this point to Canton, which is about 20 miles south of here; completion of this expressway segment is scheduled for the summer of 2008.
	iowahwypix2.tripod.com /saints (4741 words)

	RV.Net Open Roads Forum: Avenue of the Saints or Hwy 63? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Hwy 218/61 (Ave of Saints) is a truck route, and a two lane highway.
		I used to live in the Mt. Pleasant IA area, and there were always accidents on 218.
		I don't know where you are going in Missouri, but I 380 runs into hwy 218 or the Avenue of the Saints (same road) is a straight shot for you.
	www.rv.net /forum/Index.cfm/fuseaction/thread/tid/14989227.cfm (167 words)

	North End of Iowa 394
		The traffic on this highway was very heavy both times I have been on it, because this is the southernmost part of the Avenue of the Saints.
		That number is the Avenue of the Saints: 27.
		In Lee County, the four-lane Avenue of the Saints and the four-lane US 61 parallel each other less than 10 miles apart yet do not have any four-lane connection until US 34 at Mount Pleasant.
	www.angelfire.com /ia/jdmorrison/ends/ia394N.html (692 words)

	Quincy Herald Whig
		Contractors are wrapping up several small projects along the route and will soon be ready to open the final segments of the Avenue of the Saints — also known as Route 27.
		Battenhorst said bids on Missouri's final Avenue of the Saints segment will be opened in May and a contract should be awarded in June.
		The late Ernie Hayes, a Mount Pleasant businessman, originated the Avenue of the Saints concept and lobbied for the highway's construction.
	www.whig.com /320778092241893.php (397 words)

	The University of Iowa Office of the State Archaeologist -- Contract Completion Reports
		This report presents the results of a Phase I archaeological survey conducted by the OSA along a 33- mile long section of the proposed Avenue of the Saints Highway through Lee and Henry counties in southeastern Iowa.
		A Phase I archaeological investigation was conducted by the OSA in advance a new roadway, NW 54th Avenue, running between Merle Hay Road on the west and NW Beaver Drive on the east.
		This report is a supplement to Morrow's (1995) Phase I archaeological survey of the Avenue of the Saints, from Mount Pleasant, Henry County, to the Missouri border.
	www.uiowa.edu /~osa/gcp/abstracts.htm (6552 words)

	Fort Madison Daily Democrat: Archives
		The Missouri and Iowa departments of transportation, along with members of Clark County communities, have coordinated efforts to recognize the completion of another stretch of seven miles of four lane highway along the Avenue of the Saints.
		On Friday, several dignitaries from Iowa and Missouri will be on hand for the opening of the Avenue of the Saints.
		Freesen, Inc., who was responsible for the grading and bridge work on the new highway, is sponsoring a free Avenue of the Saints memento for each person in attendance.
	www.dailydem.com /articles/2004/12/01/news/news1.txt (494 words)

	Maps & Directions
		Turn tight onto Highway 218 North (Avenue of the Saints).
		Turn left (east) onto Highway 218 (Avenue of the Saints).
		Turn left (east) and exit onto highway 218 south (Avenue of the Saints).
	www.charlescitychamber.com /Maps/Maps.html (338 words)

	Interstate 380 (Iowa) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Except for the last 1½ miles between U.S. Highway 20 and its northern terminus at Mitchell Avenue in Waterloo, I-380 runs concurrent with Iowa Highway 27 as part of the 560-mile Avenue of the Saints connecting St.
		As I-380 is part of the Avenue of the Saints, it is cosigned as Iowa Highway 27.
		After parting ways with U.S. 20, the Avenue of the Saints and IA 27, I-380 heads northward for its last mile-and-a-half.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Interstate_380_(Iowa) (392 words)

	Colorful Keokuk geodes from Lewis County, Missouri Rocks & Minerals - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		We were toiling in the newly blasted material where construction was preparing roadbed to expand U.S. Highway 61 from two to four lanes just south of Canton, Missouri, as part of the "Avenue of the Saints" highway project (fig.
		The Avenue of the Saints project has already achieved this in Missouri.
		The project's name is derived from its goal, the completion of a 600-mile-long interstate-grade highway connecting Saint Louis, Missouri, with Saint Paul, Minnesota.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0GDX/is_4_78/ai_104522724 (858 words)

	Keokuk's Gate City Daily Online
		An Avenue of the Saints overpass is planned for her property, Sheffler said.
		Betty Sheffler, rock shop owner, said the Missouri Department of Transportation is building an overpass for the Avenue of the Saints in place of her round, rock home and rock shop business.
		If that's not enough to distress the 79-year-old, construction bulldozers building the Avenue of the Saints plowed through the nearby Sheffler Geode Mine, the only geode mine registered with the Bureau of Mines in Washington, D.C., and the site of many geode digs.
	www.dailygate.com /articles/2006/03/08/news/01.txt (827 words)

	Avenue of the Saints Sheltie Rescue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Avenue of the Saints Sheltie Rescue is dedicated to finding forever, indoor homes for purebred Shelties.
		We operate out of Avenue of the Saints Animal Hospital in Waverly, IA. We are a small volunteer group and most of our Shelties are evaluated and live in foster homes as they await their new forever homes.
		Applications may be picked up at the Avenue of the Saints Animal Hospital or you can contact us at the e-mail address below and one can be e-mailed or snail-mailed.
	www.petfinder.com /shelters/IA128.html (204 words)

	End of Iowa 27
		If they had wanted to make the avenue fit into the interstate system, the obvious number would be 37, but this was not done because of the existence of IA 37 in the western part of the state.
		(If the curve is the hypotenuse, this intersection is the right angle.) The 27 designation ends as it hits the Avenue of the Saints' last route (unlike a certain other state's...) as the connection continues south on 61.
		More photos of the area are on Jason's Avenue of the Saints page.
	www.angelfire.com /ia/jdmorrison/ends/ia27.html (743 words)

	wcco.com - Highway Project Connecting MN, Missouri Completed
		(AP) Des Moines, Iowa The Avenue of the Saints is now completely open to traffic in Iowa -- officially capping one of the biggest road projects in state history.
		A weekend celebration to mark the completion of the Saints project in Iowa is planned in more than 30 towns along the entire Iowa route from June 16-18, said DOT spokeswoman Dena Gray-Fisher in Ames.
		The only four-lane Saints construction remaining outside Iowa is on a 15-mile section in northern Missouri on U.S. Highway 61 between Wayland and Canton.
	wcco.com /local/local_story_144222053.html (359 words)

	Northern Iowa Bags Winnebago's 300-Employee Plant - Site Selection Online Insider
		Road improvements along "the Avenue of the Saints" helped pave Winnebago's way to Charles City.
		The new assembly operation will lie alongside what's been dubbed "the Avenue of the Saints" - a moniker that reflects the route's connecting linkage between St. Louis and St. Paul.
		Construction work on the Avenue of the Saints has widened U.S. Highways 18 and 218.
	www.siteselection.com /ssinsider/bbdeal/bd020422.htm (664 words)

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