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MARIETTA

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MARIETTA , a See also:

city and the See also:county-seat of See also:Washington county, See also:Ohio, U.S.A., on the Ohio See also:River, at the mouth of the Muskingum, about 115 M. S.E. of See also:Columbus. Pop. (1890), 8273; (1900), 13,348, including 679 See also:foreign-See also:born and 361 negroes; (1910),12,923. It is served by the See also:Pennsylvania (Marietta See also:Division), the See also:Baltimore & Ohio (Marietta & See also:Parkersburg, Marietta & See also:Zanesville, and Ohio River divisions) and the Marietta,Columbus & See also:Cleveland See also:railways, and by steamboat lines to several river ports; a See also:bridge across the Ohio connects it with See also:Williamstown, See also:West See also:Virginia. The city is in a hilly See also:country of much natural beauty, and is of considerable historic See also:interest. On the See also:banks of the Muskingum is a public See also:park, facing which stood the See also:oldest See also:church in the See also:state; this was burned in 1905, but was subsequently rebuilt in the old See also:style. Near by are some 18th See also:century buildings, some interesting earthworks of the " See also:mound-builders," and a See also:cemetery in which are buried many soldiers who fought in the See also:War of See also:Independence. Marietta is the seat of Marietta See also:College, dating from' 183o, which in 1908 had more than 500 students. It possesses a library of 6o,000 volumes, including some rare collections, especially the Stimson collection of books bearing on the See also:history of the See also:North-West Territory. See also:Petroleum, See also:coal, and See also:iron-ore abound in the neighbouring region, and the city has a considerable See also:trade in these and in its manufactures of chairs, See also:leather, See also:flour, carriages, wagons, boats, boilers, bricks and See also:glass. In 1905 the factory products were valued at $2,599,287.

Marietta, named in See also:

honour of See also:Marie Antoinette, is the oldest See also:settlement in the state and in the North-west Territory. It was founded in 1788 by a See also:company of Revolutionary See also:officers from New See also:England under the leadership of See also:General See also:Rufus See also:Putnam, and in the same See also:year the North-West Territory was formally organized here. The pseudo-classicism of the See also:period of Marietta's See also:foundation is indicated by the names—Capitolium for one 91 the public squares, Sacra Via for one of the See also:principal streets, and Campus See also:Martius for the fortification. The settlement was incorporated as a See also:town in 1800 and chartered as a city in 1852. In 1890 the See also:village of Harmar, including the site on which Fort Harmar was built in 1785, was annexed. See See also:Henry See also:Howe, See also:Historical Collections of Ohio (Columbus, 1891).

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