- Marietta
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/mair'ee et"euh/, n.1. a city in NW Georgia. 30,805.2. a city in SE Ohio, on the Ohio River. 16,467.3. a female given name, form of Mary.
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city, seat (1834) of Cobb county, northwestern Georgia, U.S. It lies about 20 miles (30 km) northwest of Atlanta, in the Blue Ridge foothills. A settlement is thought to have existed on the site in the 1820s. The town was probably named for the wife of prominent jurist and legislator Thomas W. Cobb. Its growth was stimulated in the 1840s by the arrival of the Western and Atlantic Railroad.During the American Civil War (United States) a major battle was fought at Kennesaw Mountain (June 27, 1864), just west of Marietta. The city was subsequently occupied by Union troops, who burned the city as they departed in November. Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park, established in 1917 and occupying 4.5 square miles (11.7 square km), preserves the site, and thousands of soldiers are buried in the Marietta National and Confederate cemeteries.The city's industrial development was boosted in 1942 with the opening of a B-29 bomber (B-29) plant (reactivated in 1951 by Lockheed Aircraft Corporation for jet aircraft production). The city is the seat of Kennesaw State University (1963) and Southern Polytechnic State University (1948). Dobbins Air Reserve Base is adjacent to the Lockheed Martin (Lockheed Martin Corporation) plant. Inc. village, 1834; city, 1852. Pop. (1990) 44,129; (2000) 58,748.city, seat (1788) of Washington county, southeastern Ohio, U.S. It lies at the confluence of the Ohio and Muskingum rivers, opposite Williamstown, W.Va. Shortly after the construction (1785) there of Fort Harmar, Manasseh Cutler, the American Revolutionary War general Rufus Putnam (Putnam, Rufus), and their pioneer group, the Ohio Company of Associates, made the first permanent white settlement in Ohio (April 7, 1788); it was named to honour Queen Marie Antoinette of France. On July 15, 1788, Gen. Arthur St. Clair was installed there as the first governor of the Northwest Territory, of which Marietta became the first capital.The city is now an important agricultural centre with some diversified industrial development; manufactures include chemicals (especially plastics), metal alloys, and laboratory and office equipment. Marietta College was established in 1835. Washington State Community College (1971) is located in the city. The Campus Martius Museum of the Northwest Territory includes the restored home of Putnam and the Ohio Company Land Office (1788); the Ohio River Museum is close by. Portions of Wayne National Forest surround Marietta. Statesman and former U.S. vice president Charles G. Dawes and social activist Frances Dana Barker Gage were Marietta natives. Inc. 1800. Pop. (2000) city, 14,515; Parkersburg-Marietta-Vienna MSA, 164,624; (2005 est.) city, 14,270; Parkersburg-Marietta-Vienna MSA, 162,529.* * *
Universalium. 2010.
