Mrs. McSchoolar was a very pretty, modest lady, so favorably impressed the men and officers who had the naming of the new town then being created, that they gave it her name of Marietta. This was in 1853.

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[Source: p. 626 of History of Crawford and Richland Counties Wisconsin.]