I-35 Kansas/Oklahoma Border

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In 1956 the Kansas Turnpike dead ended right at this spot. Unfortunately, Amos Switzer owned the farm on the Oklahoma side of the road. As a result he found many cars in his field. Even after Kansas erected large barricade, lasted only 24 hours before three cars crashed through it. A year and a half, and 500 accidents later, his fields and the Kansas Turnpike where converted into I-35.

(sited, The Roads the Built America, The Incredible Story of the U.S. Interstate System, 2006, pg 124)
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_Turnpike#The_southern_terminus
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Coordinates:   36°59'55"N   97°20'33"W
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