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Marietta, GA - History


We would like to provide the residents of  Marietta  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Marietta Home page. The Marietta Home page provides as much information as possible on Marietta. Knowing Marietta’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Marietta’s Home page, you will also find Marietta’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Marietta has a population of 60687. 50.1% of Marietta’s inhabitants are Male, and 49.9 are female. 39.9% of Marietta is married and 44% own their own home. The Average Home price is $311,992, and the average rent is $1,145. Household median income in Marietta is $59,594, and the individual median income is $32,248. Marietta’s Ethnic is the following: White(53.4%), Black(32.3%), Hispanic(15.7%), Other(7.1%), Multiple(4.7%), Asian(1.9%), Native(0.6%).


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 developed in Marietta in 1963.


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