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History · Marietta

Marietta’s post office opened in 1854

Most of Marietta was built recently: 8% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1986. Below: maps from 1933 on.

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Quick answers

How Marietta began

When was Marietta founded?

1854

The Marietta post office opened in 1854, the earliest record of the town by name. Two smaller post offices, Maple Ridge (1875) and Boydtown (1890), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 507172 years
Founding year: the first Marietta post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Marietta’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Marietta are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages2 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Marietta, and 2 old place names are still on the map.
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Start Marietta’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Marietta’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
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Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds

Marietta had its own post office from 1854 to 1880. Two other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.

Marietta
1854–1880
Maple Ridge
1875–1876
Boydtown
1890–1903
18501940today
Hamlets and corners on the map
BoydtownEaster Rock
Gone or out of use
Campbell SchoolschoolChrist SchoolschoolMaple Ridge ChurchchurchMarietta SchoolschoolNiland Ridge SchoolschoolPosey SchoolschoolReynolds SchoolschoolWannamaker SchoolschoolWayne Schoolschool
6cemeteries and burying grounds inside Marietta
BoydtownPioneer Wood Cook ReynoldsPleasant MoundPoseyUnion Steele GreenWayne

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

The story so far

Marietta, in brief

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 Crawford County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 507 at the 2020 census. The unincorporated community of Easter Rock is located in the town. The unincorporated community of Boydtown is located partially in the town.

Its first post office opened in 1854. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 470 to 507 (+8%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

Timeline

Marietta, 1854 to 1933

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1854Post officeThe Marietta post office opens
  3. 1875Post officeThe Maple Ridge post office opens
  4. 1876Post officeThe Maple Ridge post office closes
  5. 1880Post officeThe Marietta post office closes
  6. 1890Post officeThe Boydtown post office opens
  7. 20th century
  8. 1903Post officeThe Boydtown post office closes
  9. 1933On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Marietta, decade by decade

Today5 recent
Driftless Area - panoramio - Corey Coyle (14)2016Driftless Area - panoramio - Corey Coyle (14)Driftless Area - panoramio (60)2015Driftless Area - panoramio (60)Farm with on Hwy 602013Farm with on Hwy 60Crawford County Farm2013Crawford County FarmWIMap-doton-Marietta2004WIMap-doton-Marietta
On the map

Marietta on the map, 1933 to 1983

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Marietta. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Marietta on the 1933 USGS mapMarietta on the 1967 USGS mapMarietta on the 1983 USGS map1933Boscobel sheet · 1:62,500

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Marietta.

Famous people

Famous people close to Marietta

Nobody well known was born in Marietta itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Clifford D. SimakAmerican writer, journalist · b. 1904
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Constance KiesAmerican dietitian and nutrition scientist · b. 1934
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Doug AdamsAmerican baseball player · b. 1943
Philip BohlmanAmerican academic · b. 1952
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Bob AllenProfessional American football and baseball pla… · b. 1894
Jack K. FarrisRecipient of the Purple Heart medal · b. 1934
Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

EastmanIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townSteubenIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townBoscobelIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townMarionIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townWauzekaIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townWoodmanIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townScottIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townRichwood2 historic placesnot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Marietta’s history

What year was Marietta founded?

The Marietta post office opened in 1854, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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Where this page comes from

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 (5), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.