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Marietta is a city in and the county seat of Cobb County, Georgia, and one of Atlanta's largest suburbs.

Marietta's population was 60,972 at the 2020 census, making it the fourth-largest principal city of the Atlanta metropolitan area.

Early settlers built homes near the Cherokee town of Big Shanty, now Kennesaw, before 1824, and Marietta's first plot was laid out in 1833.

The Georgia General Assembly legally recognized Marietta on December 19, 1834, and the city was incorporated in 1852.

Marietta is believed to have been named for Mary Cobb, the wife of United States Senator and Judge Thomas Willis Cobb.

The city was built around Marietta Square, its historic central square with a courthouse, and Glover Park is the square's focal point.

Marietta's most famous landmark is the Big Chicken, a 56-foot-tall steel chicken built in 1963 for the restaurant Johnny Reb's Chick-Chuck-'N'-Shake and designed by Georgia Tech architecture student Hubert Puckett.

The Big Chicken restaurant became a KFC franchise in 1974, and after storm damage in 1993 the structure was rebuilt following public outcry; locals commonly give driving directions by reference to it.

Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park, preserving the site of the 1864 Battle of Kennesaw Mountain from the Civil War, lies just outside Marietta.

The Marietta Campus of Kennesaw State University, formerly Southern Polytechnic State University before its 2015 merger into Kennesaw State, and Life University are both located in Marietta.