• Source: Timeline of Macon, Georgia

The following is a timeline 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.
1929 – 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






External links


"Macon", New Georgia Encyclopedia, Georgia Humanities Council
"Genealogical & Historical Room". Macon: Middle Georgia Regional Library.
Items related to Macon, various dates (via Digital Public Library of America)
"Subject Guides: Macon". Middle Georgia State University Libraries.

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