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Marietta, Georgia is known for its role in the Civil War, including the Great Locomotive Chase of the 12th of April 1862, and General Hugh Kilpatrick's burning of the town in November 1864 as the opening strike of Sherman's March to the Sea. The city is also known as the site of the 1915 lynching of Leo Frank, which directly prompted the founding of the Anti-Defamation League.
Leo Frank, a Jewish-American superintendent of the National Pencil Company in Atlanta, was lynched at 1200 Roswell Road just east of Marietta on the 17th of August 1915. He had been convicted in 1913 of murdering thirteen-year-old Mary Phagan, and after Governor John Slaton commuted his death sentence, a systematically organized mob abducted Frank from prison and hanged him. The lynching's leaders included two state legislators, the mayor, a former governor, a clergyman, two former Superior Court justices, and an ex-sheriff.
The Great Locomotive Chase began in Marietta, Georgia on the morning of the 12th of April 1862. James Andrews, a civilian working with Union forces, led a party of Union soldiers disguised as civilians who stole the locomotive called The General from a scheduled stop at Big Shanty. Andrews and all of his men were caught within two weeks, tried as spies, convicted, and hanged.
The first plot of Marietta was laid out in 1833, and the Georgia General Assembly legally recognized the community on the 19th of December 1834. The city was incorporated as a village in 1834 and as a city in 1852, with John Hayward Glover elected as its first mayor.
The Big Chicken is a landmark structure on U.S. 41 and Roswell Road in Marietta, Georgia, constructed in 1963. It sits on top of a KFC restaurant and has served as a well-known navigational reference point for residents of the area since it was built.
At the 2020 census, Marietta had a population of 60,972. The city is the fourth largest of the principal cities by population in the Atlanta metropolitan area and one of Atlanta's largest suburbs.