Marietta Historic District (Boundary Increase)

Marietta's eastern extension lies on the bank of the Susquehanna River and is made up mostly of brick and clapboard houses from the mid to late nineteenth century, with some earlier Federal-era buildings. Front Street and its cross streets hold modest workers' housing, while East Market Street has larger homes, including Linden House, a three-story Federal-style building from the late eighteenth century, and a Greek Revival house at 590 East Market with fluted portico columns. The town grew from four small communities merged in the early nineteenth century. Its lumber trade, with mills, rafting and river commerce, shaped its character, and the Pennsylvania Canal, the railroad and later iron manufacturing added to its prosperity. The extension is regarded as a well-preserved example of a prosperous mid-nineteenth-century industrial town, with a wide range of building types and social levels.