Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Most of Marietta was built recently: 0.0% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1979. Below: maps from 1965 on and the census since 1880.
The Marietta post office opened in 1871, the earliest record of the town by name.
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.
Peaked at 298 in 1980; 198 people lived here in 2020.
8 censuses, 1880–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Marietta’s Wikipedia page.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Marietta yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Marietta is a town in Prentiss County, Mississippi, United States. As of the 2020 census, Marietta had a population of 198.
Its first post office opened in 1871. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 256 to 198 (-23%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Marietta, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Soon after the settlement had been made at Marietta, Major Benjamin Sites, with about twenty men, landed in November, 1788, at the mouth of the Little Miami river, within the limits of a tract of ten thousand acres, purchased by Major Sites from Judge Symes. Here they constructed a log fort, and laid out the town of Columbia.
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The first county was laid out with dimensions large enough to include all the settlements around Marietta, and was named Washington county. About the first of June, 1790, the Governor, with the Judges of the Superior Court, deseeaded the Ohio to Cincinnati, and laid out Hamilton county. A few weeks later he, with Winthrop Sargent, Secretary of the Territory, proceeded to Kaskaskia, in the Illinois country, and organized St. Clair county.
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The first county was laid out with dimensions large enough to inchide all the settlements around Marietta, and was named Washington county. About the first of June, 1T90, the Governor, With the Judges of the Superior Court, descended the Ohio to Cincinnati, and laid out Hamilton county. A few weeks later he, with AVinthrop Sargent, Secretary of the Territory, proceeded to Kaskaskia, in the Illinois country, and organized St. Clair county.
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The Indians were emboldened, and the apprehensions of the settlements were aroused, particularly those of the Marietta colony, who were more distant from succor in case of an Indian raid than Cincinnati, as the latter was within ready reach of the Kentucky settlements, where aid could be obtained at short notice.
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.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological SurveyEvery 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.
The Marietta post office opened in 1871, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
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 Wikimedia Commons (4), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock), the USGS Geographic Names Information System 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.
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