Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: maps from 1948 on and old-book passages.
Marietta dates its founding to 1839 (Wikipedia’s history). Its post office opened in 1848.
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Marietta’s history is told.
From Wikipedia’s history of Marietta.
Marietta was platted in 1839. A post office was established at Marietta in 1848, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1904. Marietta once contained a high school which was discontinued at an unknown date.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Passages that mention Marietta, cut from the printed page as they were published.
It has already been stated that the township of Marietta was established by the court of quarter sessions in 1790 but Marietta was not incorporated as a town until the year 1800. Until the year 1825, the incorporated town and the township of Marietta appear to have been coextensive. On September 1, 1800, was taken the first step toward the incorporation of the town, when a meeting of the citizens was held for that x>urpose. At. that meeting a committee, con-
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For the first 12 years of its history the town and township of Marietta were the same but at a town meeting held September i, 1800, Gen. Rufus Putnam, Paul Fearing, Benjamin Ives Oilman, and William Rufus Putnam, were appointed a committee to apply for incorporation. The act creating the town of Marietta was passed Novanber 3d, approved by the
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short miscellaneous articles, and four advertisements, one from Clarksburg, Virginia. John Green advertises that he has “opened a Public House in the town of Newport, on the road from Marietta toWheeling, fifteen miles from Marietta.” James Riggs, of Grandview, says “an iron gray mare came to my plantation and broke into my enclosure,” and requests tlie owner to prove property, etc. Richard Green offers for sale “a veiy valuable farm in the town of Marietta, about
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A Baptist church was organized in 1818 in Marietta township. The first edifice in the county was the brick church near Cornerville, east of the Little Muskingum. The organization in the town of Marietta was in 1833, and the edifice on Church street was built in 1835. The present church on Putnam street was erected in 1S54. Rev. Jeremiah Dale was one of the early preachers in this region, doing missionary work
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Marietta. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Marietta.
Nobody well known was born in Marietta itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
In 1839, according to Wikipedia’s history of the town. Marietta’s post office opened in 1848.
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →
From Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
