Assisted Living in Marietta, OH

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Facts about Marietta

Marietta is also known as: West Marietta, West Marietta, Ohio, and Washington County / Marietta city.

And some of the notable people born here have been: Bob Atha (american football player), Mark Burke (american football player), Scott Barrows (american football player), William Wedig (film director and film editor), and Althea Flynt (publisher).

And featured attractions of Marietta: Mound Cemetery, W. P. Snyder, Jr., Marietta Historic District, Fort Harmar, and Washington State Community College.

Marietta is represented by Mayor Joe Mathews.

Marietta is a city in and the county seat of Washington County, Ohio, United States. During 1788, pioneers to the Ohio Country established Marietta as the first permanent settlement of the new United States in the Territory Northwest of the River Ohio. Marietta is located in southeastern Ohio at the mouth of the Muskingum River at its confluence with the Ohio River. The population was 14,085 at the 2010 census.It is the second-largest city in the Parkersburg-Marietta-Vienna, West Virginia-Ohio (part) Metropolitan Statistical Area. The private, nonsectarian liberal arts Marietta College is located here. It was a station on the Underground Railroad before the Civil War.This is the site of the prehistoric Marietta Earthworks, a Hopewell complex more than 1500 years old, whose Great Mound and other major monuments were preserved by the earliest United States settlers in parks such as the Mound Cemetery.

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