Talk:Marietta, Ohio

Community

From the article: Marietta takes pride in having remained a small, quiet and prosperous community I've been to Marietta many times and I think the only part of that statement that is close to true is small. The place is horribly economically depressed and ravaged with problems with heroin (which comes thru on I-77) and meth. The only business of note is the Wal-Mart. There are a few nicer spots, but it's mostly trailer parks and section 8 housing. Not to mention the polution in the whole area from the factories in Belpre. Wjousts 23:01, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

A more positive perspective...the September 2007 issue of National Geographic Adventure Magazine named Marietta as the top outdoor adventure town in the state of Ohio. Marietta was one of fifty towns to make the list, and the only town in the state of Ohio. Quoting the article…“The biggest hamlet in Ohio’s Appalachian foothills, bucolic Marietta is set where the winding Ohio meets the Muskingum River. Locals hit the banks for Music on the Levee, a summer-long open-air concert series; in winter the Marietta Brewing Company steps up with live blues and jazz. Paddlers ply the Little Muskingum alongside centuries-old covered bridges, while mountain bikers take to the trails in The Wilds, a wildlife conservation park with rhinos, zebras, and giraffes.” 146.23.4.23 12:02, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

Still more positive, a 2009 NYTimes travel article. Maybe three years improved the city.Mwinog2777 (talk) 05:54, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

References

Infobox

The article needs an infobox. Vbofficial 13:31, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

An infobox was added by CapitalBot on 15 October 2007. ColWilliam (talk) 02:34, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

Great Mound

This article omits any mention of the Great Mound, and the Muskingum canal system, both significant aspects of Marietta's history. Cmacy 11:50, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

Added brief mention of the Great Mound, including picture. Regards, ColWilliam (talk) 23:01, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

Created new (separate) article about Mound Cemetery. Regards, ColWilliam (talk) 18:18, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

First permanent American settlement in Northwest Territory?

Marietta wasn't the first permanent settlement in the Northwest Territory, or even in Ohio, or Ohio Country. The text listed 5 older settlements, and I've added 5 more, so there are now 10,and those aren't all I know. It's not even the oldest permanent settlement in the state of Ohio - there are at least two older - Martin's Ferry, established in 1785 as Norristown, and Connerstown, a mixed white/Shawnee village established about 1774, which went on to become Lancaster, Ohio. Find THAT one in your history books. Even local historians don't know. There was also a settlement around Fort Sandusky in the 1750/60's, not sure it survived until the Northwest Territory era, but that's another older one. There was the old French Fort Au Glaize established in 1748, pretty sure it evaporated before 1787, but need to check on it. I might be able to go back even further, to places and settlements without Anglicized names. There were Europeans in Ohio before 1750 and they lived somewhere.

The moral of the story is, if you want bragging rights, know your history. Sbalfour (talk) 07:47, 18 January 2019 (UTC)

Ice sculpture photo

In winter, Marietta is cold enough to host an outdoor ice sculpture festival (seen here on Front Street, Marietta, in January 2023)

User:Pigsonthewing visited an ice sculpture festival and is insistent that this image and caption be included in the article. MOS:IMAGERELEVANCE suggests that images should be "significant and relevant in the topic's context, not primarily decorative." The article mentions nothing of an "ice sculpture festival", and the photo shows nothing of Marietta, Ohio. The image is decorative and should not be included. Magnolia677 (talk) 12:49, 23 January 2023 (UTC)

The French monument in Marietta, Ohio, a replica of a 1749 plaque by which the French claimed the Ohio Country, and a memorial by the French government given in 1937–1938 during the U.S .celebration of the Northwest Territory to commemorate 23 Marietta College men who served in 1917 in France as a volunteer ambulance corps in World War I.

Please don't make things up, and mislead people.

• I have never - I regret - visited Marietta, much less its ice festival
• You removed the image, with an edit summary "decorative image which shows nothing of Marietta"
• The image is not decorative, it illustrates that Marietta is cold enough for the object depicted, seen in Marietta, to survive outdoors during January
• Too counter your fallacious objection, I restored the image, adding "on Front Street, Marietta" to the caption
• Having started a discussion here, you then went ahead and removed it again.

The image is good, and should be restored.

You also removed the plaque image, shown above at reduced size, falsely describing it as "decorative". It is informative, not merely decorative, and should also be restored.

-- Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:05, 23 January 2023 (UTC)

Hotels

Hotels Armory Square 2603:6011:3438:4FE6:5663:9992:8EED:C13E (talk) 02:40, 2 January 2024 (UTC)