Marietta
a city and county-seat of Washington co., O.; on the Ohio river, at the mouth of the Muskingum river, and on the Baltimore and Ohio, Pennsylvania, vania, and Marietta, Columbus and Ohio railroads, 80 miles S. E. of Zanesville. It was settled by Gen. Rufus Putnam and a colony from New England in 1788. It is the seat of Marietta College and is situated near a series of prehistoric mounds. It contains electric light and street railroad plants, a high school, National and State banks, and daily and weekly newspapers. It has an extensive river commerce and manufactories of flour, cars, tanned leather, carriages, boats, furniture, refined petroleum, etc. Pop. (1910) 12,923; (1920) 15,140.
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