Campus Martius is a museum celebrating the early settlement of Marietta. Be sure to visit the Putnam House which has been preserved by having the museum built around it. By our standards, the house is a cottage with two rooms downstairs and three up. Fine for two people but the Putnams housed themselves, their children and at least one of their children’s families. Space would have been tight.
In back of the museum is the reconstructed Land Office where new settlers chose and claimed sections of land.
The museum has three floors. Floor one contains the Putnam House and the early history of Marietta. There is also a large contour map of the original Indian mounds which put the mounds we saw in morning in perspective. The lower floor provides a history of migration into Ohio from the original settlement in Marietta to Appalachian influx in the 1970's.
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Additional information:
Campus Martius/Ohio Historical Society
Washington County Convention and Visitors Bureau: Marietta
Campus Martius/Ohio History Central
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