Wayne County Development Corporation

The Walldogs are celebrating their 30th anniversary with a new set of murals in Allerton and the surrounding county. Topics include Inez Voyce, a 1940s women’s baseball star from Seymour; Lyle Tuttle, the “granddaddy of tattoos” who tattooed Janis Joplin, Cher, and the Allman Brothers, born in Millerton; the Jesse James Bank Robbery in Corydon; the Mormon Trail’s passage through Wayne County; Allerton’s Chautauquas, which brought speakers like Helen Keller and Booker T. Washington to Allerton in the early 1900s; the Farm Aid movement; and more. Wayne County is the sixth-smallest county in Iowa, with a population of 6500.