Cemetery Tours: Bringing Forth Those Pioneers

Education was a top priority of the Ohio Company of Associates. From those first efforts to create the Muskingum Academy, follow the “Long Blue Line” from the foundation of Marietta College with stories of a few of the people who built it into one of the top institutions it is today. Learn about the local minister who founded Marietta College, the Civil War sacrifices of three of its valedictorians, the start of the Etta Express and the American League in baseball, the Marietta College Ambulance Corps in World War I, a brave president who was decorated in World War II, and the connection between the college’s first forward football pass and a groundbreaking milestone in the Civil Rights movement.

You may also like the following events from The Castle - Marietta, Oh:

• Next Saturday, 7th March, 10:00 am, The Castle’s School of Magic & Wizardry in Marietta
• Next month, 18th March, 06:00 pm, Food History: Ohio’s First Ladies in Marietta
• This May, 23rd May, 10:00 am, Historic Marietta Tour of Homes 2026 in Marietta

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