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7 unusual facts about Marietta


Alderwood

Marietta-Alderwood, Washington, a CDP in Whatcom County, Washington, United States

Edd Hargett

Edward Eugene Hargett (born June 26, 1947 in Marietta, Texas) is a former American football quarterback for Texas A&M University who went on to play professionally for the NFL's New Orleans Saints and Houston Oilers.

Jacob Flowers

Prior to the American Civil War, Flowers owned and operated three river boats along the Ohio River carrying passengers between Marietta, Ohio and St. Louis, Missouri.

Marietta Independent School District

Marietta Independent School District was a public school district based in Marietta, Texas (USA).

Schilling Air Force Base

The 58th Bombardment Wing was moved to Smoky Hill AAF on 15 September 1943 from Marietta, Georgia and the mission at the airfield changed from heavy bomber training, to organizing and getting into combat the new B-29 Superfortress.

Tina Davidson

She lives in central Pennsylvania in the historic town of Marietta with her husband and family.

WTYC

WTYC (FM), a defunct radio station (90.9 FM) formerly licensed to Marietta, Ohio, United States


1788 in the United States

April 7 – American pioneers establish the town of Marietta (in modern-day Ohio), the first permanent American settlement outside the original Thirteen Colonies.

Big Canoe, Georgia

Fortunately, the construction of the Marietta and North Georgia Railway allowed the stone to reach new markets, and the Tate family founded the Georgia Marble Company in 1884 in response to growing business and newly interested investors.

Bristol, Ohio

It lies along State Route 93 at its intersection with Marietta Road and Township Road 223.

Bryan Lundquist

Bryan attended Lassiter High School in Marietta, Georgia, and was a member of the Stingrays Swimming club team.

Cherokee County, Georgia

It is bisected by Interstate 575, which runs from Marietta north through Woodstock, Lebanon, Holly Springs, Canton, the county seat, and Ball Ground, ending at the Pickens County line into Georgia 515, the Appalachian Parkway developmental highway.

David Ziegler

That year he commanded the military escort to Native Americans, including Chief Cornplanter, at the Treaty of Fort Harmar near Marietta, Ohio.

Dobbins Air Reserve Base

Legend has it that the only reason the building wasn't burned to the ground during Union General William Tecumseh Sherman's "March to the Sea" in 1864 was because the building's owner, a British citizen, had flown the British flag during the occupation of Marietta, part of the Atlanta Campaign.

Eugene Herbert Clay

Eugene Herbert Clay (1881–1923) was the mayor of Marietta, Georgia, and one of the ringleaders in the lynching of Leo Frank.

Frances Dana Barker Gage

Gage was born in Marietta, Ohio on October 12, 1808, the daughter of farmers Elizabeth Dana (1771–1835) and Col. Joseph Barker (1765–1843); her family's house is still in existence and has been designated a historic site.

Frederick Way, Jr.

SDPR became the driving force behind the formation of the Ohio River Museum in Marietta, Ohio.

Giovanni Bastianini

Bastianini's tin-glazed terracotta Portrait of a Lady in the Della Robbia technique, authenticated by Bernard Berenson as a "15th century Della Robbia bust of Marietta Strozzi" found its way through Joseph Duveen to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston.

Great Mound

Great Mound (Marietta, Ohio), at Mound Cemetery, aka "Conus" or "Mound Cemetery Mound" (NRHP site #73001549), listed on the NRHP in Washington County, Ohio

Henry M. Dawes

Dawes was born in Marietta, Ohio, the youngest son of American Civil War brevet Brigadier General Rufus R. Dawes and great-great-grandson of American Revolution hero William Dawes.

Howard Hawks Mitchell

Howard Hawks Mitchell (January 13, 1885, Marietta, Ohio – 1943) was an American mathematician who worked on group theory and number theory and who introduced Mitchell's group.

Illinois Route 336

The Peoria-to-Macomb corridor being studied (DOT Job No. P94-025-00 URS Job No. 25364560; July 7, 2003) closely parallels U.S. 136 to Marietta, and then Illinois Route 95 to Cuba, along Hickory Road to Canton, north on Illinois Route 78 to Farmington, then turning east along Illinois Route 116 to the Peoria area.

James Mitchell Varnum

He died less than two years later of consumption, and his marker is located in the Oak Grove Cemetery in Marietta.

John Kenneth Hilliard

(1935) Academy Award for best Sound Recording on the film Naughty Marietta

Johnny Darrell

Darrell was born in Hopewell, Alabama but grew up in Marietta, Georgia.

Joseph F. O'Connell

On November 23, 1910, O'Connell married Marietta Lenahan, daughter of former US Representative from Pennsylvania, John T. Lenahan, at St. Mary's Church in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.

Josiah Harmar

He signed the Treaty of Fort McIntosh in 1785, the same year that he ordered the construction of Fort Harmar near Marietta, Ohio.

Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park

Kennesaw Battlefield Park, at 905 Kennesaw Mountain Drive between Marietta and Kennesaw, Georgia, preserves a Civil War battleground of the Atlanta Campaign, and also contains Kennesaw Mountain.

Laban T. Moore

Born in Wayne County, Virginia (now West Virginia), near Louisa, Kentucky, Moore attended Marshall Academy in Virginia and was graduated from Marietta College in Ohio.

Lawson Vaughn

Vaughn attended Lassiter High School in his hometown, Marietta, and began his college soccer at the University of South Carolina from 2002 to 2003, appearing in 34 matches in two seasons, he notched one goal and 3 assists.

Lewis C. Lucas

Lewis Clark Lucas (Marietta, Ohio, November 3, 1867 -1939) was an American officer serving in the United States Marine Corps during the Spanish-American War who was one of 23 Marine Corps officers approved to receive the Marine Corps Brevet Medal for bravery.

Lewis Wetzel

Lewis was implicated in the deaths of several Indians, which led to his being charged with murder by Colonel Josiah Harmar for the murder of an Indian in the region of Fort Harmar, near present day Marietta, Ohio, in 1788.

Lotte Lehmann

In her 21 years with the company, Lehmann sang more than fifty different roles at the Vienna State Opera, including Marie/Marietta in Die tote Stadt, the title-roles in La Juive by Fromental Halévy, Mignon by Ambroise Thomas, and Manon by Jules Massenet, Charlotte in Werther, Marguerite in Faust, and Tatiana in Eugene Onegin.

Luke Putkonen

Putkonen attended Walton High School in Marietta, Georgia.

Maria Jeritza

She created the roles of Blanchefleur in Kienzl's opera Der Kuhreigen (1911), Ariadne in Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos (1912), the Empress in his Die Frau ohne Schatten (1919), and Marie/Marietta in Korngold's Die tote Stadt (1920), which was also the role in which she debuted at the Metropolitan Opera on November 19, 1921.

Marietta Alboni

The following list of the roles performed by Marietta Alboni was drawn up by Arthur Pougin and published in his biography of the singer.

Marietta Holley

Along with Frances Miriam Whitcher and Ann S. Stephens, Marietta Holley is remembered as one of America's most significant early female humorists.

Marietta Robusti

This portrait depicts Marietta posed before a harpsichord, holding a musical text that has been identified as a madrigal by Philippe Verdelot, "Madonna per voi ardo".

Martin Marietta

In 1982, Martin Marietta was subject to a hostile takeover bid by the Bendix Corporation, headed by William Agee.

Matamoras, Ohio

Matamoras is an Ohio River town, approximately 20 miles east of Marietta, Ohio; directly across the Ohio River from Friendly, West Virginia.

Minnesota State Highway 40

Minnesota State Highway 40 is a highway in west-central Minnesota, which runs from South Dakota Highway 20 at the South Dakota state line near Marietta and continues east to its eastern terminus at its intersection with U.S. Highway 12 in Willmar.

Richard Wetz

: (Recording: Marietta Zumbült, Mario Hoff, Erfurt Cathedral Choir, Weimar Philharmonic Choir, Thuringian Weimar State Orchestra, George Alexander Albrecht,CPO 2003.)

RIM-113

The designation XRIM-113A, indicating an experimental ship-launched interceptor missile, was allocated to the SIRCS project in May 1976, and contracts were awarded to three separate teams of contractors - RCA/Martin-Marietta, McDonnell Douglas/Sperry, and Raytheon/Lockheed/Univac - for initial studies of the SIRCS missile concept, in anticipation of a competitive evaluation.

Ringo the 4th

Arnold McCuller, Brie Howard, David Lasley, Debra Gray, Duitch Helmer, Jimmy Gilstrap, Joe Bean, Luther Vandross, Lynn Pitney, Marietta Waters, Maxine Anderson, Melissa Manchester, Rebecca Louis, Robin Clark, Vini Poncia, Bette Midler – backing vocals

Safe America Foundation

Begun in 2002 as the Teen Driving Institute, the Driving Academy was initially a weekday driving safety event for metro-Atlanta high school students held in the parking lot of Lockheed Martin Marietta, Georgia facility.

St. James Episcopal Cemetery

The murder-victim JonBenét Ramsey lies in Saint James Episcopal Cemetery in Marietta, next to the grave of her mother Patsy Ramsey and her half-sister Elizabeth Pasch Ramsey (daughter of John Bennett Ramsey and his first wife), who died in a 1992 car accident at the age of 22.

Wayne Sowell

Wayne Sowell is married to Dr. Marietta Cameron, an associate professor of computer science at Birmingham-Southern College in Birmingham, Alabama.

William W. Bosworth

Although Rockefeller's project ended in 1936, Bosworth remained in his adopted country in semi-retirement, building a house for himself and his family, Villa Marietta, in Vaucresson (1935–1936).

WPZE

The frequency already belonged to WGHR in Marietta, the student radio station at what is now Southern Polytechnic State University — however the forced downgrade to second-class status left the class D station vulnerable.


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