15 Facts About Macon Georgia

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

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

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

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

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

Macon Georgia 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 Georgia Academy for the Blind, operated by the state of Macon Georgia, is a statewide school for blind students.

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

The Supreme Court of Macon Georgia thereupon declared “that the sole purpose for which the trust was created has become impossible of accomplishment” and remanded the case to the trial court, which held cy-pres doctrine to be inapplicable, since the park's segregated character was an essential and inseparable part of Bacon's plan.

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

Since at least 2006 Macon 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 Georgia has six sister cities, as designated by Sister Cities International, Inc :.