Marshalltown, Iowa "Marshalltown"
Marshalltown .
Marshalltown, Iowa Main Street Marshalltown Main Street Marshalltown Marshalltown is a town/city in, and the governmental center of county of, Marshall County, Iowa, United States. The populace was 27,552 in the 2010 census, compared to 26,009 in 2000. Henry Anson was the first European settler in what is now called Marshalltown.
In April 1851, Anson found what he described as "the prettiest place in Iowa." On a high point between the Iowa River and Linn Creek, Anson assembled a log cabin.
A plaque at 112 West Main Street marks the site of the cabin. In 1853 Anson titled the town Marshall, after Marshall, Michigan, a former residence of his. The town became Marshalltown in 1862 because another Marshall already existed in Henry County, Iowa (In 1880, Marshall's name changed to Wayland).
In 1863 the title of governmental center of county transferred from the village of Marietta to Marshalltown.
By 1900, Marshalltown had 10,000 residents.
Many industries began developing in Marshalltown, like Fisher Controls, Lennox International and Marshalltown Company.
Adrian Constantine "Cap" Anson, son of Henry and Jennette Anson, was the first European child born in the new pioneer town and is today known as Marshalltown's "first son".
Baseball steadily became prominent as Marshalltown interval in the mid-1800s.
Both later returned to Marshalltown to play baseball for the town team.
Along with their father Henry, the town's founder, they put together a team and became the most prominent team in the state of Iowa. The Marshalltown team, with Henry Anson at third base, Adrian's brother Sturgis in center field, and Adrian at second base, won the Iowa state championship in 1868.
In 1870 Marshalltown played an exhibition game with the talented Rockford Forest Citys.
Although Marshalltown lost the game, Rockford's management offered contracts to all three of the Ansons.
Baseball continued its popularity in Marshalltown.
In the early 1880s Billy Sunday played for the town baseball team. In 1882, with Sunday in left field, the Marshalltown team defeated the state champion Des Moines team 13-4. Marshalltown later formed a minor league team naming it after the Anson family, the Marshalltown Ansons.
Marshalltown is positioned at 42 2 30 N 92 54 52 W (42.041742, 92.914580). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 19.31 square miles (50.01 km2), of which 19.28 square miles (49.93 km2) is territory and 0.03 square miles (0.08 km2) is water. Neighboring counties include Hardin and Grundy to the North, Tama County to the east, Jasper to the south, and Story County to the west.
Marshalltown Company, a manufacturer of American tools for many assembly and archaeological applications, is based in Marshalltown.
Sub City, a locally owned sub shop that is one of the most highly rated restaurants in Marshalltown.
The Big Treehouse, a large tourist attraction positioned outside of Marshalltown.
According to Marshalltown's 2011 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the town/city are: 3 Marshalltown Community School District 1,002 9 Marshalltown Community College 245 Marshalltown Community School District serves Marshalltown.
The first schoolhouse in Marshalltown was a log cabin assembled in 1853.
In 1874 high school classes were held in an old building on North Center Street.
Prior to 1900 Anson School on South Center Street functioned as a major school.
Until a new school could be built, classroom space was rented on Main Street.
The new building was constructed in the early 1990s and opened at the start of the 1995-1996 school year.
Lenihan Intermediate School was initially assembled in 1965 as a Catholic high school at a cost of $775,000.
After five years in operation the administrators of Lenihan High School found it was financially impossible to continue providing character education for their students.
At the same time, the enhance school in Marshalltown was overcrowded with students at the junior high school level.
The solution decided upon by both parties was to sell Lenihan to the enhance school fitness and to make the school a 7, 8, 9 junior high.
The Catholic school name, mascot and school colors were all retained in the new enhance junior high school.
In the spring of 1988, the school board voted to close Lenihan at the end of the 1989 school year.
An increase in populace coupled with troubles equally distributing resources between two middle schools Miller Middle School and Anson Middle School led to a reorganization and unification of grades 5 and above inside the city.
Anson Middle School was closed as a school and now homes the district's Building and Grounds Department.
Lenihan Junior High after its closure had served in various administrative functions, but the Marshalltown Community School District renovated it and the building became Lenihan Intermediate School which opened for the 2006-2007 school year. Highway 30 bypasses the town to the south, while Iowa 14.svg Iowa Highway 14 runs through the center of town.
An expressway, Iowa 330.svg Iowa Highway 330 joins Marshalltown to Des Moines.
Marshalltown has bus (Marshalltown Municipal Transit or MMT) and taxicab services.
Representative, Marshalltown town/city councilman Dave Lennox, inventor and businessman, established Lennox furnace manufacturing company in Marshalltown in 1895 "City of Marshalltown - City Council".
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"Population & Housing Occupancy Status 2010".American Fact - Finder.
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Marshalltown Iowa Community Link.
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"Enumeration of Population and Housing".
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"The Baseball Biography Project".
Miller, 83,' The Marshalltown Times Republican, January 3, 1989, pg.
Mill, George Rogues and Heroes from Iowa's Amazing Past The Iowa State University Press, Ames, Iowa, 1972.
"2007 World Ranking List, Men's Jump, List generated on: November 1, 2005 to October 31, 2006, "US-Japan Sister Cities by State".
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