MARIETTA

city, seat (1834) of Cobb county, north-central Georgia, U.S., 20 miles (32 km) northwest of Atlanta, in the Blue Ridge foothills. It was probably named for Judge Thomas W. Cobb's wife. Its growth was stimulated in the 1840s by the arrival of the Western and Atlantic Railroad. The Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park marks the site of a major American Civil War battle (JuneJuly, 1864), 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 plant (reactivated in 1951 by Lockheed Aircraft Corporation for jet aircraft production). The city is the seat of Kennesaw State College (1963) and Southern College of Technology (1948). Dobbins Air Force Base is adjacent to the Lockheed plant. Inc. 1852. Pop. (1990) 44,129. 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, the American Revolutionary war general Rufus Putnam and his 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, General 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, grindstones, safes, concrete, and office equipment. Marietta College was established in 1835, and Washington State Community College in 1971. The Campus Martius State Memorial Museum includes the restored home of Putnam, the Ohio Company Land Office (1788), and the Ohio River Museum. Inc. 1800. Pop. (1990) city, 15,026; Parkersburg-Marietta MSA, 149,169; (1994 est.) city, 15,157; (1995 est.) Parkersburg-Marietta MSA, 152,131.