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Marietta is a city located in central Cobb County, Georgia 6, and is its county seat. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 58,748, making it one of metro Atlanta's largest suburbs. Southern Polytechnic State University and Life University are located here, and the city operates its own school district, separate from the county. Dobbins Air Reserve Base is on the south side of town, separated from SPSU by a Lockheed-Martin manufacturing plant. The major local landmarkFor the group sometimes known as Landmark see Landmark Education Originally, a landmark literally meant a geographic feature, used by explorers and others to find their way back through an area on a return trip. In modern usage, it is anything that easily in Marietta is the Big ChickenThe Big Chicken is a local landmark in Marietta, Georgia, built at the city's biggest intersection of Cobb Parkway (US 41) and Roswell Road (Ga. In 1963, Johnny Reb's Chick, Chuck and Shake owner S. Tubby" Davis erected the 56-foot (17-meter) tall structu, a large, metal, animated chicken structure atop what is now a Kentucky Fried Chicken, located east of downtown at the city's busiest intersection. Even as the city has become more urbanized, locals still give directions by referencing it.

The school district, Marietta City Schools, is the smallest in Metro Atlanta, operating only one high school, Marietta High School, one middle school, Marietta Middle School, and several elementary schools. Many, such as Marietta High School, and A.L. Buruss are Georgia Schools of Excellence.

The city also operates Marietta FiberNet , a fiber optic networkA wide variety of systems of interconnected components are called networks . Specific examples include: television networks transport networks, roads, railroads, shipping routes and airlines, pipelines (gas, petroleum, water, sewage), electric circuits a currently being sold to a companyA company in the broadest sense is an aggregation of people who stay together for a common purpose. Such usage includes people assembled for: commercial purposes organised as a type of business organization. See company (law); military purposes . See comp, and Marietta Power , both under the auspices of the Board of Lights & Water (BLW). The BLW is also party to the Cobb-Marietta Water Authority .

Downtown Marietta features Glover Park, the historic town square and former location of the county courthouse. The Strand Theatre on the square is being renovate d back to its original design. CSX trains between Atlanta and Chattanooga still run a block west of the town square, past the train depot (now the visitor center) and the Kennesaw House , one of only two buildings in Marietta not burned to the ground in Sherman's March to the Sea.

Marietta's sister cities are Heredia, Costa Rica and Linz am Rhein, Germany.

The city's official website is located at http://www.city.marietta.ga.us.



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