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MARIETTA
, a See also:city and the See also:county-seat of See also:Washington county, See also:Ohio, U.S.A., on the Ohio See also:River, at the mouth of the Muskingum, about 115 M
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S.E. of See also:Columbus
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Pop
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(1890), 8273; (1900), 13,348, including 679 See also:foreign-See also:born and 361 negroes; (1910),12,923
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It is served by the See also:Pennsylvania (Marietta See also:Division), the See also:Baltimore & Ohio (Marietta & See also:Parkersburg, Marietta & See also:Zanesville, and Ohio River divisions) and the Marietta,Columbus & See also:Cleveland See also:railways, and by steamboat lines to several river ports; a See also:bridge across the Ohio connects it with See also:Williamstown, See also:West See also:Virginia
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The city is in a hilly See also:country of much natural beauty, and is of considerable historic See also:interest
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On the See also:banks of the Muskingum is a public See also:park, facing which stood the See also:oldest See also:
Marietta, named in See also:honour of See also:Marie Antoinette, is the oldest See also:settlement in the state and in the North-west Territory
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It was founded in 1788 by a See also:company of Revolutionary See also:officers from New See also:England under the leadership of See also:General See also:Rufus See also:Putnam, and in the same See also:year the North-West Territory was formally organized here
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The pseudo-classicism of the See also:period of Marietta's See also:foundation is indicated by the names—Capitolium for one 91
the public squares, Sacra Via for one of the See also:principal streets, and Campus See also:Martius for the fortification
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The settlement was incorporated as a See also:town in 1800 and chartered as a city in 1852
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In 1890 the See also:village of Harmar, including the site on which Fort Harmar was built in 1785, was annexed
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