Marietta, Georgia
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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.
Marietta Square
Ruins of the paper mill at Sope Creek
Mary Phagan as depicted in the Atlanta Journal'
Downtown Marietta in July 2017
The General (locomotive)
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Western & Atlantic Railroad #3 General is a 4-4-0 "American" type steam locomotive built in 1855 by the Rogers, Ketchum & Grosvenor in Paterson, New Jersey for the Western & Atlantic Railroad, best known as the engine stolen by Union spies in the Great Locomotive Chase, an attempt to cripple the Confederate rail network during the American Civil War. Today, the locomotive is preserved at the Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History in Kennesaw, Georgia, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The General on display in Kennesaw, Georgia, in 2007
The General on display in Chattanooga, Tennessee circa 1907
Commemorative tie clasp, produced in 1964 by the Louisville & Nashville Railroad as part of the General's tour marking the centennial of the Civil War
General Monument near Ringgold, Georgia