15 Facts About Macon GA

Macon GA is served by three interstate highways: I-16, I-75, and I-475 .

Macon GA was founded on the site of the Ocmulgee Old Fields, where the Creek Indians lived in the 18th century.

Macon GA was developed at the site of Fort Benjamin Hawkins, built in 1809 at the fall line of the Ocmulgee River to protect the community and to establish a trading post with Native Americans.

Macon GA lived among the Creek and was married to a Creek woman.

Macon GA was in the Black Belt of Georgia, where cotton was the commodity crop.

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Camp Oglethorpe, in Macon GA, was used first as a prison for captured Union officers and enlisted men.

Macon GA's troops had sacked the nearby state capital of Milledgeville, and Maconites prepared for an attack.

Macon GA Telegraph wrote that, of the 23 companies which the city had furnished the Confederacy, only enough men survived and were fit for duty to fill five companies by the end of the war.

Macon GA was one of the cities to suffer the worst flooding.

Macon GA is home to the Mercer Bears, who compete at the NCAA Division I level in sports that include soccer, football, baseball, basketball, tennis, and lacrosse.

Macon GA has a substantial number of local television and radio stations.

City of Macon GA is visited in two different The Walking Dead spinoff games by Telltale Games: The Walking Dead: Season One and The Walking Dead: 400 Days.

Macon GA grew as a center of rail transport after the 1846 opening of the Macon GA and Western Railroad.

Since at least 2006 Macon GA has been included in the proposed Georgia Rail Passenger Program to restore inter-city rail service but as of 2020, Georgia lacks any inter-city passenger rail service other than the federally funded inter-state Amtrak services.

Macon GA has six sister cities, as designated by Sister Cities International, Inc :.