Portions of the route today date back to the late 1830s, when Martin Van Buren was president, making Iowa Highway 1 one of the oldest routes in the state, pre-dating the current primary highway system by nearly eighty years.
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North of Fairfield, Iowa 1 passes the Fairfield Municipal Airport and Maharishi Vedic City.
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This road, authorized by President Martin Van Buren in 1839, was known as Dillon's Furrow, named after the Dubuque merchant Lyman Dillon who surveyed the route and marked it with a furrow.
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