Timeline of Macon, Georgia

The following is a of the history of the city of Macon, Georgia, United States.

• 1806 – U.S. Fort Hawkins built at the present-day site of Creek Indian Ocmulgee Old Fields (future site of Macon).
• 1821 – Fort Hawkins settlement renamed "Newtown".
• 1822 – Bibb County created.
• 1823 – Town of Macon incorporated; named after North Carolina statesman Nathaniel Macon.
• 1826
• Macon Telegraph newspaper begins publication.
• First Presbyterian Church founded.
• 1829 – Newtown becomes part of Macon.
• 1833 – Steamboat in operation.
• 1834 – City of Macon incorporated.
• 1835 – Robert Augustus Beall elected mayor.
• 1836 – Monroe Railroad Bank built.
• 1838 – Monroe Railroad (Forsyth-Macon) begins operating.
• 1839 – Georgia Female College opens.
• 1840
• Rose Hill Cemetery established.
• Population: 3,927.
• 1843 – The Central of Georgia Railway connects Savannah and Macon.
• 1846 – The Macon and Western Railroad connects Macon and Atlanta; the Small House (residence) built (approximate date).
• 1848 – Telegraph begins operating.
• 1851 – Georgia State Fair relocates to Macon.
• 1860
• Belgian Fair and Cotton Planters' Exposition held.
• Population: 8,247.
• 1862 – "Arsenal of the Confederate Government moved to Macon" during the American Civil War.
• 1864
• July 30: Macon besieged by Union forces.
• "City Hall made temporary State Capitol of Georgia."
• 1865 – April 20: Macon occupied by Union forces.
• 1866 – October 29: Equal Rights and Educational Association of Georgia meeting held in Macon.
• 1871
• Mercer University relocates to Macon from Penfield.
• Bibb Manufacturing Company in business.
• 1874 – Public Library (social library) established.
• 1876 – Mount de Sales Academy active.
• 1880
• Telephone begins operating.
• Population: 12,749.
• 1884
• Macon Daily News begins publication.
• Academy of Music built.
• 1887
• April 6: Riverside Cemetery chartered
• August 6: Woolfolk family murdered near Macon.
• 1900 – Price Library (public library) opens.
• 1906 – Ocmulgee River levee construction begins.
• 1910 – Population: 40,665.
• 1917 – Cox Capitol Theatre in business.
• 1918
• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Columbus branch organized (approximate date).
• Macon Art Association formed.
• Outbreak of Spanish flu.
• 1919
• Washington Memorial Library (public library) established.
• Paul Jones was lynched on November 2, 1919, after being accused of attacking a fifty-year-old white woman. He was burned alive.
• 1921 – Douglass Theatre and Rialto Theatre in business.
• 1922
• WMAZ radio begins broadcasting.
• Sherah Israel Synagogue built.
• 1925 – Macon City Auditorium built.
• 1929
• Luther Williams Field (stadium) opens.
• Walker Business College, an African American business and vocational school opens a second campus in Macon
• 1933 – Citizens & Southern National Bank building constructed.
• 1936
• Ocmulgee National Monument established.
• Farmer's Market built.
• 1938 – Bibb Theatre in business.
• 1948 – WIBB radio begins broadcasting.
• 1949 – Middle Georgia Regional Library headquartered in Macon.
• 1950 – Population: 70,252.
• 1952 – Georgia Journal newspaper begins publication.
• 1953 – WMAZ-TV begins broadcasting.
• 1955 – Singer James Brown records his first single "Please, Please, Please" at the studio of WIBB radio in Macon.
• 1960 – "Stratford Academy founded"
• 1964 – Middle Georgia Historical Society formed.
• 1965 – Macon Junior College established.
• 1966 – U.S. Supreme Court decides Evans v. Newton desegregation-related lawsuit.
• 1967
• December 18: Funeral of musician Otis Redding.
• Ronnie Thompson becomes mayor.
• 1970 – Population: 122,423.
• 1978 – Middle Georgia Archives organized.
• 1983
• Cherry Blossom Festival begins.
• Richard Ray becomes U.S. representative for Georgia's 3rd congressional district.
• 1993 – Sanford Bishop becomes U.S. representative for Georgia's 2nd congressional district.
• 1994
• July: Flood.
• Georgia Sports Hall of Fame relocates to Macon.
• 1999 – C. Jack Ellis becomes mayor.
• 2000 – Population: 97,255.
• 2001 – City website online (approximate date).
• 2003 – Historic Macon Foundation formed.
• 2007 – Robert Reichert becomes mayor.
• 2010 – Population: 91,351.
• 2012 – Governments of Macon city and Bibb County consolidated.
• 2015 – Middle Georgia State University active.

See also

• Macon history
• List of mayors of Macon, Georgia
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Bibb County, Georgia
• Other cities in Georgia:
• Timeline of Athens, Georgia
• Timeline of Atlanta
• Timeline of Augusta, Georgia
• Timeline of Columbus, Georgia
• Timeline of Savannah, Georgia

References

Bibliography

Published in 19th century

Published in 20th century

• Ida Young, Julius Gholson, and Clara Nell Hargrove. History of Macon, Georgia (Macon, Ga.: Lyon, Marshall & Brooks, 1950).
• John A. Eisterhold. "Commercial, Financial, and Industrial Macon, Georgia, During the 1840s", The Georgia Historical Quarterly, Winter 1969, Vol. 53 Issue 4, pp 424–441
• James H. Stone. "Economic Conditions in Macon, Georgia in the 1830s", The Georgia Historical Quarterly, Summer 1970, Vol. 54 Issue 2, pp 209–225
• Bowling C. Yates. "Macon, Georgia, Inland Trading Center 1826–1836", The Georgia Historical Quarterly, Fall 1971, Vol. 55 Issue 3, pp 365–377
• McInvale, Morton Ray "Macon, Georgia: The War Years, 1861–1865" (Ph.D. dissertation, Florida State University, 1973)
• Roger K. Hux. "The Ku Klux Klan in Macon 1919–1925", The Georgia Historical Quarterly, Summer 1978, Vol. 62 Issue 2, pp 155–168
• Nancy Anderson, Macon: A Pictorial History (Virginia Beach, Va.: Donning, 1979).
• Donnie D. Bellamy. "Macon, Georgia, 1823–1860: A Study in Urban Slavery", Phylon 45 (December 1984): 300–304, 308–309
• Kristina Simms. Macon, Georgia's Central City: An Illustrated History (Chatsworth, Calif.: Windsor, 1989).
• Titus Brown. "Origins of African American Education in Macon, Georgia 1865–1866", Journal of South Georgia History, Oct 1996, Vol. 11, pp 43–59
• Macon: An Architectural Historical Guide (Macon, Ga.: Middle Georgia Historical Society, 1996).
• Macon's Black Heritage: The Untold Story (Macon, Ga.: Tubman African American Museum, 1997).
• Matthew W. Norman. "James H. Burton and the Confederate States Armory at Macon", The Georgia Historical Quarterly, Winter 1997, Vol. 81 Issue 4, pp 974–987
• Titus Brown. "A New England Missionary and African-American Education in Macon: Raymond G. Von Tobel at the Ballard Normal School, 1908–1935", The Georgia Historical Quarterly, Summer 1998, Vol. 82 Issue 2, pp 283–304
• Robert S. Davis. Cotton, Fire, & Dreams: The Robert Findlay Iron Works and Heavy Industry in Macon, Georgia, 1839–1912 (Macon, Ga., 1998)

Published in 21st century

• Robert Scott Davis. "A Cotton Kingdom Retooled for War: The Macon Arsenal and the Confederate Ordnance Establishment", The Georgia Historical Quarterly, Fall 2007, Vol. 91 Issue 3, pp 266–291
• Candace Dyer, Street Singers, Soul Shakers, Rebels with a Cause: Music from Macon (Macon, Ga.: Indigo Publishing Group, 2008).
• Mara L. Keire. For Business and Pleasure: Red-Light Districts and the Regulation of Vice in the United States, 1890–1933 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010); 248 pages; History and popular culture of districts in Macon, Ga., and other cities

External links

• Items related to Macon, various dates (via Digital Public Library of America)