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Tucked into the southeastern corner of Ohio, where the Muskingum River quietly empties into the Ohio River, sits Marietta a town that carries more history per square block than most cities ten times its size. Founded in 1788 by Revolutionary War veterans, it was the first permanent American settlement in the Northwest Territory, and it once stood on the edge of becoming Ohio’s state capital.
That near-miss with greatness never seemed to wound Marietta; if anything, it preserved the place. Walking through town today feels like the clocks slowed down sometime around 1890 and nobody bothered to speed them back up.
A River Town with a Longer Memory Than Most
Some towns are old. Marietta, Ohio is foundational the kind of old that shaped everything that came after it in the American Midwest…