Lincoln Highway County Consul (1924): C.H.E. Boardman, Attorney, 12 E. Main Street, Marshalltown
"We are passing beautiful farms. Here we see a group of splendid dappled grey Percheron draught horses, the pride of a stock-farm. Here we pass reddish-yellow shocks of oats. The country is more wooded now. We see maples, oaks, ash, willows, and black walnuts. Here and there are yellow wild flowers, somewhat like black-eyed Susans. One thing we remark in all these Middle Western farms. There seem to be almost no flowers around the farm houses... We miss this in our Western farms and wonder why it is that we see so little color... This is the country of wheat and oats. We have left the orchards and the vineyards far behind us in lovely California."
- Effie Price Gladding, 1914
State Center 
Marshalltown LeGrand
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