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. (Timeline) 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

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