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This week in South Dakota history: Nov. 14-20

(Courtesy of David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

Major travel routes through South Dakota were in the midst of becoming the first thoroughfares in the state to be governed by the United States Highway System a century ago.

And with the inclusion of five state roads into the newly conceived cross-country highway network, standardized signage would soon give travelers confidence in the routes, according to the Nov. 19, 1925, edition of the Argus Leader.

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