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By the 1960s, the Grand had ceased showing movies and plans were made to replace it with a parking lot. [4] Those plans were blocked in 1967 by the Macon Arts Council, a group formed to save and restore the Grand; the group held a fundraising gala featuring the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and had the property placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970. [1]
Georgia Children's Museum, Macon, closed in 2014 [4] Georgia Music Hall of Fame, Macon, closed in 2011; Lewis Grizzard Museum, Moreland, closed in 2011, collections now at the Moreland Hometown Heritage Museum [5] [6] Nash Farm Battlefield Museum, closed June 1, 2017 [7] National Museum of Patriotism, Atlanta, closed in 2010
Sidney Lanier Cottage was purchased by the Middle Georgia Historical Society in 1973, [2] and opened to the public in 1975. [3] Until 2021, the Sidney Lanier Cottage served as a museum, event space, and home of the Lanier Center for Literary Arts. The Historic Macon Foundation sold the cottage and it has since been restored as a single family ...
Under government pressure in 1805, the Lower Creek ceded their lands east of the Ocmulgee River to the state of Georgia, but they refused to surrender the sacred mounds. They retained a 3-by-5-mile (4.8 km × 8.0 km) area on the east bank called the Ocmulgee Old Fields Reserve. It included both the mounds on the Macon Plateau and the Lamar mounds.
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The Allman Brothers Band Museum, also known as The Big House, is a museum in Macon, Georgia, United States. It was the home to The Allman Brothers Band's original members, their families, and various friends from 1970 to 1973. The Big House was renovated by The Big House Foundation and opened in November 2009 as an interactive museum dedicated ...
The museum first opened in 1956 [2] [3] and started as a room in the Wesleyan Conservatory with a few activities for children. In 1964, the museum moved locations with the construction of a gallery and workshop. A year later, a planetarium would be added as a new wing of the museum. A 1980 addition included most of the museum's infrastructure.