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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.
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
The Johnston–Felton–Hay House, often abbreviated Hay House, is a historic residence at 934 Georgia Avenue in Macon, Georgia.Built between 1855 and 1859 by William Butler Johnston and his wife Anne Tracy Johnston in the Italian Renaissance Revival style, the house has been called the "Palace of the South."
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.
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
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 ...
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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 ...