Southwest Missouri
Marshfield is the birthplace of astronomer Edwin Hubble
Edwin Hubble, the astronomer behind the expanding-universe work and the namesake of the Hubble Space Telescope, was born in Marshfield, which is the single most distinctive piece of the county's identity and the reason for the courthouse-square telescope replica
Marshfield is the county seat of Webster County. That means it is the town where the county government is based. Marshfield is also the birthplace of Edwin Hubble. Hubble was an astronomer, a scientist who studies stars and space. His work showed that the universe is expanding, or getting bigger. That idea changed how people understood space in the 1900s. The Hubble Space Telescope is named after him.
The town shows off this link in a clear way. A scale replica, or small copy, of the Hubble Space Telescope sits on the courthouse square. So anyone passing through the center of town can see it. This is a real birthplace tie, not a loose connection. It shapes a lot of local pride and signs around town. Before you state exact dates, the exact birth site, or when the replica was put up as fact, check with a local office first.
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Where this fits: this note belongs to Webster County. See every local note for the county on its page.