Marietta

Marietta is a city located in central Cobb County, Georgia, United States, and is the county's seat and largest city. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 56,579, making it one of metro Atlanta's largest suburbs. Marietta is the third-largest of three principal cities (by population) of and is included in the Atlanta–Sandy Springs–Marietta, Georgia, metropolitan statistical area, which is included in the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Gainesville, Georgia-Alabama (part) combined statistical area. One story is the city was named for Mary Cobb, the wife of U.S. Senator and U.S. Supreme Court justice Thomas Willis Cobb. Homes had been built by early settlers near the Cherokee town of Big Shanty (now Kennesaw) by 1824. The first...