Lockheed Martin, Marietta relationship tested by economy

Courtesy of Marietta Museum of History

A production floor in 1945 at Lockheed Martin in Marietta. Marietta was unprepared when Bell Aircraft Corp. came to the Cobb County farm town of 8,000 or so. At its peak, in 1969, the plant employed more than 30,000. So many cars zipped in and out at shift changes that workers came up with a name – ‘Marietta 500.’ Courtesy of Marietta Museum of History