Macon, Georgia
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Macon, Georgia Macon Bibb County Downtown Macon Downtown Macon Official seal of Macon, Georgia Location in Bibb county in the state of Georgia Location in Bibb county in the state of Georgia Macon, Georgia is positioned in the US Macon, Georgia - Macon, Georgia Macon / me k n/ (officially Macon Bibb County) is a town/city located in the state of Georgia, United States.
Macon lies near the geographic center of the state, approximately 85 miles (137 km) south of Atlanta, hence the city's nickname "the Heart of Georgia." Settled near the fall line of the Ocmulgee River, Macon is the governmental center of county of Bibb County and had a 2014 estimated populace of 153,691.
Macon is the principal town/city of the Macon urbane area, which had an estimated populace of 231,259 in 2014.
Macon is also the biggest city in the Macon Warner Robins Combined Travel Destination (CSA), a larger trading region with an estimated 417,473 inhabitants in 2014; the CSA abuts the Atlanta urbane region just to the north.
In a 2012 popular vote, voters allowed the consolidation of Macon and Bibb County, and Macon became Georgia's fourth-largest town/city (just after Augusta).
Macon is served by three interstate highways: I-16 (connecting the town/city to Savannah and coastal Georgia), I-75 (connecting the town/city with Atlanta to the north and Valdosta to the south), and I-475 (a town/city bypass highway).
The mayor of Macon is Robert Reichert, a former Democratic member of the Georgia House of Representatives.
Reichert was propel mayor of the newly merged town/city of Macon Bibb, and he took office on January 1, 2014. Timeline of Macon, Georgia Macon lies on the site of the Ocmulgee Old Fields, where the historic Creek Indians lived in the 18th century.
Macon advanced at the site of Fort Benjamin Hawkins, assembled from 1806 1809 at the fall line of the Ocmulgee River to protect the new frontier and establish a trading post with Native Americans.
Fort Hawkins guarded the Lower Creek Pathway, an extensive and well-traveled American Indian network later improved by the United States as the Federal Road from Washington, DC to the ports of Mobile, Alabama and New Orleans, Louisiana. A gathering point of the Creek and American cultures for trading, it was also a center of state militia and federal troops.
After the organization of Bibb County in 1822, the town/city was chartered as the governmental center of county in 1823 and officially titled Macon.
The town/city creators envisioned "a town/city inside a park" and created a town/city of spacious streets and parks.
The town/city thrived due to its locale on the Ocmulgee River, which enabled shipping to markets; cotton became the mainstay of Macon's early economy, based on the enslaved workforce of Africans.
Macon was in the Black Belt of Georgia, where cotton was the chief commodity crop.
In 1836, the Georgia Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church established Wesleyan College in Macon; it was the first college in the United States chartered to grant degrees to women. In 1855 a popular vote was held to determine a capital town/city for Georgia.
During the American Civil War, Macon served as the official arsenal of the Confederacy.
Camp Oglethorpe, in Macon, was used first as a prison for captured Union officers and enlisted men.
Macon City Hall, which served as the temporary state capitol in 1864, was converted to use as a hospital for the wounded.
The Union General William Tecumseh Sherman spared Macon on his march to the sea.
Sherman did not bother to go through Macon.
The Macon Telegraph wrote that, of the 23 companies which the town/city had furnished the Confederacy, only enough men railwayand were fit for duty to fill five companies by the end of the war.
Gradually into the twentieth century, Macon interval into a prospering town in Middle Georgia.
In 1895, the New York Times dubbed Macon "The Central City," in reference to the city's emergence as a core for barns transit and textile factories. Terminal Station was assembled in 1916. Downtown Macon in the early 1900s Macon was one of the metros/cities to suffer the worst flooding. The tornado then tracked northeast to the south shore of Lake Tobesofkee then continued into Macon and lifted near Dry Branch near the Twiggs County line.
The most momentous damage was in the town/city of Macon especially along Eisenhower Parkway and Pio Nono Avenue where 2 businesses were finished and a several the rest sustaining heavy damage.
In 2012, voters in Macon and Bibb County allowed a new merged government between the town/city and county, making the city's new boundary lines the same as the county's and deannexing a small portion of the town/city that once lay in Jones County. Downtown Macon seen from the Ocmulgee National Monument On July 31, 2012, voters in Macon (57.8 percent approval) and Bibb County (56.7 percent approval) passed a popular vote to merge the governments of the town/city of Macon and most of unincorporated Bibb County, based on the authorization of House Bill 1171, passed by the Georgia General Assembly earlier in the year; four previous consolidation attempts (in 1933, 1960, 1972, and 1976) had failed. Under the consolidation, the governments of Macon and Bibb County were replaced with a single mayor and a nine-member countywide commission propel to office by county districts.
A portion of Macon that extends into close-by Jones County was deincorporated from Macon.
Like many primary industrial metros/cities in the midwest and northeast, the town/city of Macon has suffered from urban decay, dilapidated bungalows and other old homes, high crime rates, air pollution from factories and urban blight which has caused flight from the town/city core to the more suburban portions of Bibb County and to more suburban areas like Houston County, just south of the city.
This has been more of an copy for Macon than Georgia's other 2nd-tier cities.
Macon is one of Georgia's three Fall Line Cities, along with Augusta and Columbus.
As such, Macon has a varied landscape of rolling hills on the north side and flat plains on the south.
In the past, Macon and other Fall Line metros/cities had many textile mills powered by the rivers.
Macon is positioned at 32 50 05 N 83 39 06 W (32.834839, 83.651672). Macon is approximately 330 feet (100 m) above sea level. Climate data for Macon, Georgia (Middle Georgia Regional Airport), 1981 2010 normals, extremes 1892 present Macon, Georgia urbane region Downtown Macon at evening Macon Metropolitan Travel Destination Macon is the biggest principal town/city of the Macon-Warner Robins-Fort Valley CSA, a Combined Travel Destination that includes the Macon urbane region (Bibb, Crawford, Jones, Monroe, and Twiggs counties), the Warner Robins urbane region (Houston County), and the Fort Valley micropolitan region (Peach County), which had a combined populace of 346,801 at the 2000 census. Census, the populace of Macon was 91,351.
Malls include: The Shoppes at River Crossing, Macon Mall, and Eisenhower Crossing.
Robins Air Force Base, the biggest single-site industrialized complex in the state of Georgia, is just south of Macon, next to the town/city of Warner Robins.
Macon is the place of birth or hometown of musicians Emmett Miller, The Allman Brothers Band, Randy Crawford, Mark Heard, Lucille Hegamin, Otis Redding, Little Richard, Mike Mills, and Bill Berry of R.E.M., as well as more recent names like violinist Robert Mc - Duffie and nation artist Jason Aldean.[clarification needed] September Hase, an alternative modern band, was identified in Macon.
Capricorn Records, run by Macon natives Phil Walden and briefly Alan Walden, made the town/city a core for Southern modern music in the late 1960s and 1970s. The Macon Symphony Orchestra performs at the Grand Opera House in downtown Macon, as well as a youth symphony, and the Middle Georgia Concert Band. International Cherry Blossom Festival - a 10-day celebration held every mid-March in Macon Ocmulgee Indian Celebration - A celebration of Macon's initial Native American Heritage, this festival is held in September [clarification needed Since what year?] at Ocmulgee National Monument.
The Georgia Music Hall of Fame hosts Georgia Music Week in September.
Macon's annual Bragg Jam festival features an Art and Kids' Festival along the Ocmulgee Heritage Trail and a eveningtime Pub Crawl.
Macon Film Festival - an annual celebration of autonomous films, held the third weekend in July.
Ocmulgee National Monument is positioned near downtown Macon.
Museum of Arts and Sciences (Macon) and Planetarium Macon City Auditorium -- World's Largest True Copper Dome The Grand Opera House, where the Macon Symphony Orchestra performs Macon Coliseum Macon Little Theatre, established in 1934, the area's earliest improve theatre, producing seven plays/musicals per season Macon is home to the Mercer Bears, who compete at the NCAA Division I level in sports that include soccer (men's and women's), football, baseball, basketball (men's and women's), tennis, and lacrosse.
Macon Giants Baseball Great South League Ed Defore Sports Complex Macon Mayhem Ice Hockey Southern Professional Hockey League Macon Coliseum Macon State College Blue Storm Various NCCAA Various 2009-13 Macon Central City/Hornets Baseball Southern League Central City Park 1892-94 Macon Highlanders/Brigands/Peaches/Tigers Baseball South Atlantic League Central City Park and Luther Williams Field 1904-17, 1923 30 Macon Peaches/Dodgers/Redbirds/Pirates Baseball Southeastern League (1932), South Atlantic League (1936 42, 1946 60, 1962 63, 1980-87), Southern Association (1961), Southern League (1964, 1966 67) Luther Williams Field 1932, 1936 42, 1946 60, 1961 64, 1966 67, 1980 82 Macon Braves Baseball South Atlantic League Luther Williams Field 1991-2002 Macon Peaches Baseball Southeastern League Luther Williams Field 2003 Macon Music Baseball South Coast League Luther Williams Field 2007 Macon Pinetoppers Baseball Peach State League Luther Williams Field 2010 Macon Blaze Basketball World Basketball Association Macon Coliseum 2005 Macon Whoopees Ice Hockey Southern Hockey League Macon Coliseum 1974 Macon Whoopee Ice Hockey Central Hockey League (1996-2001), ECHL (2001-02) Macon Coliseum 1996-2002 Macon Trax Ice Hockey Atlantic Coast Hockey League (2002 03), World Hockey Association 2 (2003-04), Southern Professional Hockey League (2004 05) Macon Coliseum 2002-05 Macon Knights Arena Football af2 Macon Coliseum 2001-06 Macon Steel Indoor Football American Indoor Football Macon Coliseum 2012 Macon Mayhem Ice Hockey Southern Professional Hockey League Macon Coliseum 2015 present Ocmulgee Heritage Trail - a green way of parks, plazas, and landmarks along the Ocmulgee River in downtown Macon East Macon Park North Macon Park The town/city council is, to date, the only town/city council in Georgia to conduct partisan elections, with the town/city council leaning mostly to the Democratic Party. Howard High School (Macon, Georgia) Rutland High School (Macon, Georgia) Approximately 30,000 college students live in the greater Macon area. Mercer, Middle Georgia State University, and Wesleyan College have the biggest populations of "traditional" college students. Georgia College & State University has a "Center for Graduate and Professional Learning" in Macon. Gateway Macon (web portal), The Local's Guide for Things To Do in Macon.
WMUM-FM 89.7 - Macon (Georgia Public Broadcasting/National Public Radio) WLZN 92.3 - Macon (Urban hip-hop - "Blazin' 92.3") WMGB 95.1 (Top 40 (CHR) - "All the Hits B95.1") - Macon WMGZ 97.7 FM - Macon WIBB-FM 97.9 - Macon (Urban - Hip-Hop "97.9 WIBB") WZCH 102.1 - Macon (Christian Music - K-Love) WZCH 102.5 - South Macon and Warner Robins (Christian Music - K-Love) WLXF 105.5 - Macon (Mainstream modern - "Rock 105") WQBZ 106.3 - Macon ( Mainstream modern "Q106-3") Macon Downtown Airport is positioned near downtown.
Middle Georgia Regional Airport provides enhance air service to Macon as well as cargo flights.
The Macon Transit Authority (MTA) is Macon's public-transit system, operating the Public Transit City Bus System throughout Macon-Bibb County.
Most commuters in Macon and the encircling suburbs use private automobiles as their major transportation.
This results in heavy traffic amid rush hour and contributes to Macon's air pollution.
The street cars have offered tours of the downtown Macon region since 1999.
Macon interval as a center of rail transport after the 1846 opening of the Macon and Western Railroad. Two of the most note-worthy train companies operating through the town/city were the Central of Georgia Railway and the Southern Railway.
Macon is encompassed in the proposed Georgia Rail Passenger Program to restore inter-city rail service.
List of citizens from Macon, Georgia Macon has six sister cities, as designated by Sister Cities International, Inc.
France Macon, France Downtown Macon, Georgia Macon, Georgia urbane region List of mayors of Macon, Georgia Official records for Macon were kept at downtown from October 1892 to 7 April 1899, the Weather Bureau from 8 April 1899 to November 1948, and at Middle Georgia Regional Airport since December 1948.
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