When Dr. Helen E. Curtis returned to Marietta after medical school in 1881, she certainly must have wondered how the small town of Marietta and surrounding area
In the second half of the 1800s, Marietta’s population was in steady increase with native Germans leading the number of foreign-born newcomers. In the 1871-18
In the first wave of German settlers who came to Washington County in the mid 1830s, many were from the village of Durkheim in the Rhine Palatinate. The small t
People of German heritage were among the earliest white settlers of Ohio. The German states in Europe were experiencing famines and political struggles, and peo
By Jann Adams With the passionate determination of Catherine Fay Ewing to care for destitute orphans in the mid 1800s, Washington County Children’s Home was