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Nevada. Department of Transportation
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The increasingly interstate nature of economic life, the requirements of national defense, the dramatic growth of motor vehicle ownership, and the rise of tourism created a demand for a national highway network. The Office of Road Inquiry came into being in 1893 as part of the Department of Agriculture. It functioned as a fact-gathering and advisory agency until 1916, by which time it had become the Office of Public Roads and Rural Engineering. A real highway program for...
