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Coweta County Heritage Museum and Research Center, Newnan, closed in 2012 [3] Fort Discovery, Augusta, closed in 2010; 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]
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 ...
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).
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.
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 ...
The Union County Historical Society and Heritage Museum purchased the four-bedroom manse on Cleveland Street from the Presbyterians in 2019. ... Mar. 13—NEW ALBANY — A new short-stay inn in ...
Burke County Wade Plantation: Screven Grove Point Plantation Chatham 80004451 Wilkes Knob Plantation: Marshallville: Macon 80001061 William S. Simmons Plantation: Cave Spring Floyd 84000265 Stafford Plantation: St. Marys: Camden: The only antebellum-era structures are "the chimneys," slave cabin ruins. 70000205 Susina Plantation: Beachton Grady ...
NRHP count and density by county Georgia counties. The following are tallies of current listings by county. [a]Atkinson County Courthouse Ben Hill County Jail Ocmulgee National Monument, in Bibb County, Georgia Brooks County Courthouse Fort Pulaski, in Chatham County Rosenberg Brothers Department Store, in Dougherty County Georgia State Capitol, in Fulton County Haralson County Courthouse ...