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Visit Macon, in partnership with six other destination marketing organizations in the region, launched Georgia’s Trail of Legacy & Lore, a new self-guided trail which spans more than 90 miles.
Macon (/ ˈ m eɪ k ən / MAY-kən), officially Macon–Bibb County, is a consolidated city-county in Georgia, United States.Situated near the fall line of the Ocmulgee River, it is 85 miles (137 km) southeast of Atlanta and near the state's geographic center—hence its nickname "The Heart of Georgia".
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.
Universities and colleges in Macon, Georgia (1 C, 7 P) Pages in category "Tourist attractions in Macon, Georgia" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.
Marnie Hunter (Atlanta) rode down I-75 to Macon, Georgia, for our inaugural America’s Best Towns to Visit project. “This town is packed with stately Antebellum homes and musical history ...
Macon’s got the music. It’s true and even Garden & Gun thinks so. In a recent story by the magazine , Macon was named one of the “Seven small but mighty music towns in the South.”