MARIETTA, NEW YORK
Heffernan, Kathryn C.  Nine Mile Country.  Published by Visual Artis
Publicans, Inc. 1978. p. 25-26.  Copyright by the Board of Trustees,
Marcellus Free Library, Marcellus, NY.

Another hamlet of the Town of Marcellus was Marietta. " A variety of sources
claiming information about the name, Marietta, are on record in the files of
the Onondaga Historical Association.  One story says Charles J. Burnett, who
established a mill at the outlet of Otisco Lake, named it in honor of his
wife.  A story by Richard G. Case in the Syracuse Herald Journal in 1968
claims it was named after Marietta, Ohio.  A 1908 clipping quotes W. A.
Sharpe of Dover , Delaware to the effect that it was named for his mother,
Mary Burtis.   The clipping also carries the comment that several other Marys
lived in the area when the post office was established.  This comment, added
to the assertion by a Mrs. Mary McEvoy, great granddaughter of John G.
Burtis, The Revolutionary grantee, that the name was given to the hamlet by
the President of the Untied States, would seem to indicate that the name came
with the establishment of the post office.  Thaddeus Thompson was the first
Marietta Postmaster.   Dr. Parsons (in his book, Centennial History of
Marcellus) says Jonathan Russell, who built the tavern at Marietta, was also
engaged in milling.  Parsons also credits Amos Miner with building a mill and
wheelhead factory in the vicinity in 1807.  The next year a log distillery
was built near Miner's mill.  Says Dr. Parsons, 'It became, as usual, a
school for vice, boiled one man to death in its mush and ruined its founders
in 1811.' "

Submitted by John Curtin
23 May 1997