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Travelmag Ranks Marietta As One Of The Most Charming Small Cities
An esteemed online travel magazine has ranked Marietta Ohio as one of the 30 most charming cities in the nation.
MARIETTA, OH — This week Travelmag released a list of the 30 most charming small cities in the USA. The small cities that made their list were selected based on a number of factors and voted on by writers, photographers, and travel industry specialists. All of the voters were asked to pick their five favorite small cities (population between 10,000 and 250,000) spread across at least three different states.
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Here is the blurb that Paul Stafford of Travelmag wrote about Marietta.
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Marietta, OH
On a gentle bend of the Ohio River you’ll find Marietta, a once-strategic outpost that grew in size soon after US Independence in a bid to settle as much land as possible. The Ohio River Museum here goes into more detail and you can even ride an authentic paddle steamer upriver. But Marietta’s significance comes from its role in the lives of groups oppressed under US rule: Marietta was a station on the Underground Railroad and, somewhat sadly, it was built atop a series of Native American ceremonial mounds known as the Mariette Earthworks. Remnants can be seen around the city, such as at Mound Cemetery.
Here are the other 29 cities that made the list:
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- Traverse City, MI
- St. Augustine, FL
- South Lake Tahoe, CA
- Sioux Falls, SD
- Savannah, GA
- Saratoga Springs, NY
- Santa Fe, NM
- Santa Barbara, CA
- Salem, MA
- Richmond, VA
- Providence, RI
- Portland, ME
- Palm Springs, CA
- Newport, RI
- Naples FL
- Napa, CA
- Knoxville, TN
- Ithaca, NY
- Greenville, SC
- Grand Rapids, MI
- Fredericksburg, TX
- Falmouth, MA
- Charleston, SC
- Bloomington, IN
- Bellingham, WA
- Asheville, NC
- Ashland, OR
- Annapolis, MD
- Ann Arbor, MI
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