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The old building closed on April 10, 2015, with the museum holding a farewell party on April 16. [4] The new facility opened on May 16, 2015, during the Pan-African Festival in Downtown Macon. [5] The ceremony included a march from the old Tubman Museum to the new building where the ribbon cutting took place.
The Macon Historic District is a historic district in Macon, Georgia that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974 and was expanded in 1995. [2] The original listing covered 587 acres (238 ha) and included 1,050 contributing resources; the increase added 101 acres (41 ha) and 157 contributing resources (of which 10 acres and 10 contributing buildings were already listed ...
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Georgia that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, listed on a heritage register, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design. [1] [2] [3]
Tubman Museum executive director Harold Young holds his phone while calling museum founder Richard Keil to celebrate his 91st birthday on Friday, May 24, 2024, at the Tubman Museum in Macon, Georgia.
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).
Bibb County Courthouse and Confederate Monument in Macon, GA c.1870s Montezuma: Macon County Confederate Monument (1911). [86] "The first Macon County monument is currently located in Fannie Carmichael Park and faces east. It is a soldier with both hands on his grounded rifle. There are lion heads on each side.
October 16, 1970 (1 mi. E of Andersonville on GA 49: Andersonville: administered by the National Park Service: 3: Billy Place: November 25, 1980 (Rt. 1: Marshallville: 4: DeVaughn-Lewis House
The couple originally purchased approximately 10 acres of land in east Macon near the Twiggs County line on Marion road to clear and build a home as well as a pumpkin patch and fall agri-tourism farm.