History of Marietta, Ohio, USA

Marietta, a flourishing town, capital of Washington county, Ohio, is beautifully situated on the left (E.) bank of the Muskingum river, at its confluence with the Ohio, 62 miles below Wheeling, and 115 miles S. E. from Columbus. The town is regularly laid out on level ground, and in the midst of highly picturesque scenery. Many of the houses arc constructed with great neatness, and embellished with fine gardens and ornamental trees. Marietta has the distinction of being the oldest town in the state, having been settled in April, 1788, by a company of New-Englanders, under the command of General R. Putnam. Fort Harmar was built on the opposite bank of the Muskingum in 1786. It is also distinguished by the excellence of its schools. The town contains 7 or 8 churches, 2 public libraries, 2 academies, a branch of the State Bank, and is the seat of Marietta College, founded in 1835. Two newspapers are published here. The Muskingum is navigable by steam as high as Zanesville, and also...

besides a book-store and several buildings, the loss being over $50,000.

Marietta, a city, the capital of Washington co., O., is finely situated on the N. bank of the Ohio River, at the mouth of the Muskingum, and on both sides of the latter river, 12 miles above Parkersburg, and about 80 miles below Wheeling. By rail it is 199 miles E. by N. of Cincinnati, and 175 miles S. of Cleveland. It is connected with the latter place by the Cleveland & Marietta Railway, and is on a branch of the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Rail road. It is connected also with Zanesville, 75 miles N., by the Zanesville & Ohio River Railroad, and with Columbus by the Toledo & Ohio Central Extension Railroad. The Ohio River Railroad passes on the S. bank of the Ohio, It is surrounded by picturesque scenery, and contains many handsome residences. This is the oldest town in the state, having been founded in 1788 by General R. Putnam and other emigrants from New England. It contains 16 churches, union schools, 2 national banks, a savings-bank, and Marietta College (non-sectarian),...

Frank Roney, brakeman on the Toledo and Ohio Central Association railroad, while coupling freight cars on the grade at Marietta, fell under the wheels and lost a foot and had the other badly crushed.

The paths from the heights of Abraham led to Independence Hall, Independence Hall led finally to Yorktown, and Yorktown guided the footsteps of your Fathers to Marietta."-Daniels.

AT the point where the Muskingum empties into the Ohio, the River Beautiful, across whose waters the Ohio hills look tenderly away into the distances of West Virginia, there was sown, in 1788, the tiny seed for the development of the Northwest Territory. Here, on the memorable seventh of April, landed forty eight New England pioneers; here stayed the keel of the second Mayflower, bearing as her burden not only the men whose names have become immortal in American history, but, more than these, the Ordinance of 1787 with its momentous articles of compact, an ordinance ranking "next to the Declaration of Independence in the establishment of Constitutional liberty in the United States." Here was founded that other Plymouth, Marietta, the brave little gateway through which the nation's civilization journeyed...

Special to the Washington Post
Wheeling, W. Va., May 11 - In the midst of the performance of WALLACE'S circus at Marietta, Ohio this afternoon, lightning struck the main pole of the side show tent, killing WILLIAM TULLINS, of Lowell, seriously injuring four others, and stunning more than a hundred spectators.