Marietta OH Ohio
60
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Frequently Asked Questions
At the downtown riverbank, where the Muskingum meets the Ohio. The grassy landing is within walking distance of everything essential: brick-lined streets, church spires, bookshops and cafes.
Yes, easily. The distances are all walkable, and local volunteers, often on hand when ships arrive, hand out maps and advice with thoroughly Midwestern warmth.
The Campus Martius Museum for Ohio's origins, the Ohio River Museum and the steam tug W.P. Snyder Jr. moored outside, then the Adena mound in Mound Cemetery. Finish with the footbridge to Harmar across the Muskingum, or Front Street and its independent shops.
Founded in 1788, it was the first permanent settlement of the Northwest Territory — the official starting point of American expansion westward. The American West began on this quiet riverbank.
A museum built on the site of the stockade that protected the first settlers from New England. It follows the great westward migration, period covered wagon included, and Rufus Putnam's house, home of the founders' leader, is preserved at the heart of the exhibit with its original furnishings.
The last intact steam-powered sternwheel towboat in the United States, moored outside the Ohio River Museum. You can walk it from deck to pilothouse, and the museum's models, whistles and photographs place Marietta in the steamboat age between Pittsburgh and New Orleans.
A conical earthwork raised by the Adena culture, far older than the town, now watching over the graves of American Revolution officers — more of them here than in any other cemetery in the country. Stairs cut into the mound lead to a modest overlook.
The village across the Muskingum, where the fort that preceded the 1788 founding stood. A former railway bridge converted into a footbridge leads there. Clapboard houses, a small railway museum and an old-fashioned ice cream parlour make an hour's walk, with the finest views back to the landing.
Yes. The steam tug can be explored from deck to pilothouse, the Campus Martius covered wagon fires the imagination, the Harmar footbridge invites running across, and the old-fashioned ice cream parlour ends the day well. No difficult walking.
Spring through autumn, while river cruising runs. In September, the sternwheel festival fills the riverbank with calliope music, the steam organ of the upper decks. Currency: the US dollar, cards accepted.
