Marshall County
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Baseball Hall-of-Famer Cap Anson (1852), actress Jean Seberg (1938), and actress Mary Beth Hurt (1946) were all born in Marshalltown. Seberg was Mary Beth's childhood babysitter. The Fisher Art Gallery in Marshalltown has a collection of Impressionist and post-Impressionist paintings.
Marshall County, Marshall County.
County seat is Marshalltown.
See the courthouse. It's a beauty!
Tornado almost knocked it down.
Named, of course, for the chief justice.
One of twelve they named for John.
Not for James, who found the gold at
Sutter's Mill in Californ'.
Who was born here? Lots of people.
Anson, Seberg, Mary Beth.
Are there paintings by Pissarro,
Sisley, and Cassatt? You bet!
The city of State Center's not
Exactly in the middle.
But it does have lots of flowers.
It is Iowa's Rose Capital!