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City in Georgia, United States

Marietta is a city in and the county seat of Cobb County, Georgia, United States. At the 2020 census, the city had a population of 60,972. The 2019 estimate was 60,867, making it one of Atlanta's largest suburbs. Marietta is the fourth largest of the principal cities by population of the Atlanta metropolitan area.

The origin of the name is uncertain. It is believed that the city was named for Mary Cobb, the wife of the U. S. Senator and Superior Court judge Thomas Willis Cobb. The county is named for Cobb.

Homes were built by early settlers near the Cherokee town of Big Shanty (now Kennesaw) before 1824. Built in 1838, Oakton House is the oldest continuously occupied residence in Marietta. The original barn, milk house, smokehouse and well house remain on the property. The gardens contain the boxwood parterre from the 1870s. Oakton was Major General Loring's headquarters during the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain in 1864. Marietta was initially selected as the hub for the new Western and Atlantic Railroad and business boomed. General William Tecumseh Sherman invaded the town during the Atlanta Campaign in summer 1864. In November 1864, General Hugh Kilpatrick set the town ablaze, the first strike in Sherman's March to the Sea.

In 1892, the city established a public school system. It included a Marietta High School and Waterman Street School for white students. A school for black students was also created on Lemon Street. The state of Georgia did not provide a high school for black students until 1924 when Booker T. Washington High School (Georgia) opened in Atlanta, after decades of black citizens requesting educational resources.

Leo Frank was lynched at 1200 Roswell Road just east of Marietta on August 17, 1915. Frank, a Jewish American superintendent of the National Pencil Company in Atlanta, had been convicted on August 25, 1913, of the murder of one of his factory workers, 13 year old Mary Phagan. The murder and trial, sensationalized in the local press, portrayed Frank as sexually depraved and captured the public's attention. An eleventh hour commutation by Governor John Slaton of Frank's death sentence to life imprisonment because of problems with the case against him created great local outrage. A mob threatened the governor to the extent that the Georgia National Guard had to be called to defend him and he left the state immediately with his political career over. Another mob, systematically organized for the purpose, abducted Frank from prison, drove him to Marietta and hanged him. The leaders of the abduction included past, current and future elected local, county and state officials. There were two state legislators, the mayor, a former governor, a clergyman, two former Superior Court justices and an ex sheriff. In reaction, Jewish activists created the Anti Defamation League, to work to educate Americans about Jewish life and culture and to prevent anti Semitism. The Big Chicken was constructed in Marietta in 1963. In 1963, Atherton's Drugstore, a store on Marietta Square, exploded, killing 6 people and injuring 23 others.

Located near the center of Cobb County, between Kennesaw to the northwest and Smyrna to the southeast. U. S. Route 41 and State Route 3 run through the city northeast of downtown as Cobb Parkway, and Interstate 75 runs parallel to it through the eastern part of Marietta, with access from exits 261, 263, 265, and 267. Downtown Atlanta is 20 mile (32 km) to the southeast, and Cartersville is 24 mile (39 km) to the northwest. According to the United States Census Bureau, Marietta has a total area of , of which is land and , or 0.38%, is water.

+Marietta racial compositionRaceNum. Perc. White (non Hispanic)25,61042.0%Black or African American (non Hispanic)17,56428.81%Native American1350.22%Asian1,7652.89%Pacific Islander350.06%Other/Mixed3,3355.47%Hispanic or Latino12,52820.55%
As of the 2020 United States census, there were 60,972 people, 24,554 households, and 13,788 families residing in the city.

At the 2010 census, there were 56,641 people and 22,261 households.

Name Term of office John Hayward Glover 1852 Joshua Welch 1853 W. T. Winn 1854 I. N. Heggie 1855 N. B. Knight 1856 J. W. Robertson 1857 R. W. Joyner 1858 I. N. Heggie 1859 Samuel Lawrence 1860–1861 J. A. Tolleson 1862 W. T. Winn 1863 H. M. Hammett 1864 C. C. Winn 1865 A. N. Simpson 1866–1868 G. W. Cleland 1869 William H. Tucker 1870–1873 Humphrey Reid 1874 William H. Tucker 1875 Edward Denmead 1876–1877 Humphrey Reid 1878 Joel T. Haley 1879 Edward Denmead 1880–1883 Enoch Faw 1884 W. M. Sessions 1885 Edward Denmead 1886–1887 Thomas W. Glover 1888–1893 R. N. Holland 1894–1895 D. W. Blair 1896–1897 W. M. Sessions 1898–1899 T. M. Brumby Sr. 1900–1901 Joe P. Legg 1902–1903 John E. Mozley 1904–1905 E. P. Dobbs 1906–1909 Eugene Herbert Clay 1910–1911 J. J. Black 1912–1913 E. P. Dobbs 1914–1915 James R. Brumby Jr. 1916–1922 Gordon B. Gann 1922–1925 E. R. Hunt 1926–1927 Gordon B. Gann 1928–1929 T. M. Brumby Jr. 1930–1938 L. M. Blair 1938–1947 Sam J. Welsch 1948–1955 C. W. Bramlett 1956–1959 Sam J. Welsch 1960–1963 L. H. Atherton Jr. 1964–1969 James R. Hunter 1970–1973 J. Dana Eastham 1974–1981 Robert E. Flournoy Jr. 1982–1985 Vicki Chastain 1986–1989 Joe Mack Wilson 1990–1993 Ansley L. Meaders 1993–2001 William B. Dunaway 2002–2009 Steve Tumlin 2010–present

The median household income was $40,645 and the median family income was $47,340. Males had a median income of $31,186 and females $30,027. The per capita income was $23,409. About 11.5% of families and 15.7% of the population were below the poverty line. 21.3% of those under age 18 and 10.2% of those aged 65 or over.

Dobbins Air Reserve Base on the south side of town and a Lockheed Martin manufacturing plant are among the major industries in the city. The Lockheed Georgia Employees Credit Union is based in Marietta.

The city operates Marietta Power under the auspices of the Board of Lights & Water.

Interstate 75 and U. S. 41 run through the eastern part of the city. State routes 3, 5, and 120 also run through Marietta.

CobbLinc, Marietta/Cobb County's Transit System and Xpress GA Buses serve the City.

The CSX freight trains between Atlanta and Chattanooga (Western & Atlantic Subdivision) still run a block west of the town square, past the 1898 built former railroad depot (now the Visitor Center). Into the 1950s the Louisville and Nashville Railroad operated the Midwest Florida trains, the Cincinnati Florida Flamingo and the Chicago Florida Southland, which made daily stops in Marietta Depot. Into the 1960s, the L&N's Chicago & St. Louis Florida trains, Dixie Flyer and Dixie Limited also made stops there. The final train was the L&N's St. Louis, Missouri Evansville, Iindiana Atlanta Georgian which ended service on April 30, 1971. (Until 1968 the train also had a northern leg from Evansville to Chicago.)

The Marietta Daily Journal is published in the city.

East Marietta National Little League won the 1983 Little League World Series, defeating the team from Barahona, Dominican Republic in the world championship.

All of the public schools in Marietta proper are operated by the Marietta City Schools (MCS), while the remainder of the schools in Cobb County, but outside the city limits, is operated by the Cobb County School District, including all of the county's other cities. MCS has one high school, Marietta High School, grades 9 12; a middle school, Marietta Middle School, grades 7 and 8; Marietta Sixth Grade Academy; and several elementary schools: A. L. Burruss, Dunleith, Hickory Hills, Lockheed, Marietta Center for Advanced Academics, Park Street, Sawyer Road, and West Side. Many residents of Marietta attend Cobb County public schools, such as Joseph Wheeler High School and Sprayberry High School. These schools are known to compete fiercely in athletics, especially basketball, as both Wheeler and Marietta High School frequently produce D 1 players. The town of Marietta is also home to the Walker School, a private pre kindergarten through 12th grade school. Walker competes in the Georgia High School Association Class A (Region 6) athletic division while Marietta and Wheeler compete in Class AAAAAA (Regions 4 and 5, respectively). The school system employs 1,200 people. MCS is an International Baccalaureate (IB) World School district. In 2008, MCS became only the second IB World School district in Georgia authorized to offer the IB Middle Years Program (MYP) for grades 6 10. MCS is one of only a few school systems nationwide able to provide the full IB (K 12) continuum. The Marietta Campus of Kennesaw State University, formerly known as Southern Polytechnic State University (SPSU) before being merged into Kennesaw State, and Life University are located in Marietta, serving more than 20,000 students in more than 90 programs of study.

The city has six historic districts, some on the National Register of Historic Places (these include Northwest Marietta, Whitlock Avenue, Washington Avenue, and Church Cherokee Streets). The city's visitor center is located in the historic train depot. Downtown is the town square and former location of the county courthouse. The square is the site of several cultural productions and public events, including a weekly farmers' market. The Marietta Players perform semi professional theater year round. The historic Strand Theatre has been renovated back to its original design and features live theatre, concerts, classic films, and other events. The Big Chicken, which currently sits on top of a KFC restaurant, has been a landmark on U. S. 41 and Roswell Road since 1963. Miramax Films and Disney filmed scenes of the 1995 movie Gordy here. The 2014 film Dumb and Dumber To filmed a scene in the Marietta Square. The city includes the Kennesaw House, one of only four commercial buildings in Marietta not burned to the ground in Sherman's March to the Sea. The Kennesaw House is home to the Marietta History Center which tells the history of Marietta and Cobb County.