February 11, 2025

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Marietta, Ohio’s oldest city, has both historical and modern features

A small paddlewheel is displayed at the Ohio River Museum.

MARIETTA — The confluence of the Muskingum and Ohio Rivers proved an auspicious locale for Ohio’s initially enduring pioneer town, built in what was then the wilderness of the Northwest Territory.

Today’s day-vacation pioneers will still find it an inviting desired destination, but will have a considerably less difficult time getting there, considerably fewer acquiring a very good meal or cup of espresso.

Founded in 1788, Marietta is the oldest town in the Buckeye State. Modern readers will come across a energetic and picturesque river city, but with intriguing traces of background remaining from people pioneer times — and even prior to.

The rivers that introduced those to start with pioneers to the web site are nevertheless inviting. The Rivertrail Bike and Pedestrian Path sales opportunities guests for 4.5 miles along the banking institutions of the Ohio and Muskingum rivers, via downtown Marietta and to a lot of quite parks, interesting sights, historic websites and organizations.

This pilothouse, salvaged from the riverboat Tell City and displayed at the Ohio River Museum, may be the oldest such structure surviving..

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A different good way to examine the spot is aboard the Valley Gem Sternwheeler (www.valleygemsternwheeler.com), a tour boat that gives a wide variety of journeys on each rivers.

River heritage, specially that of the intimate steamboat days, is on display next door to the Valley Gem dock at the Ohio River Museum (which, sure, is on the banking companies of the Muskingum River, but near adequate to the Ohio to listen to a steamboat whistle.)

The museum (www.mariettamuseums.org)  incorporates quite a few detailed scale styles of initial steamboats and tells the stories of some of the most fascinating steamboat captains, together with Mary B. Greene, an area indigenous who became the to start with licensed woman steamboat captain on the Ohio or Mississippi rivers in the late 19th century.

The Ohio Company Land Office, now at Campus Martius, may be the oldest extant building in the state.

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And website visitors can tour the restored W.P. Snyder, the previous sternwheel towboat in the United States, now docked just exterior the museum.

Marietta also hosts a significant Sternwheel Festival (www.sternwheel.org) every yr, with authentic paddlewheelers browsing from ports near and considerably. This year’s pageant is scheduled Sept. 9-11. 

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