Timeline of Macon, Georgia explained

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Macon, Georgia, United States.

• 1806 – U.S. Fort Hawkins built at the present-day site of Creek Indian Ocmulgee Old Fields (future site of Macon).
• 1821 – Fort Hawkins settlement renamed "Newtown".
• 1822 – Bibb County created.^[1]
• 1823 – Town of Macon incorporated; named after North Carolina statesman Nathaniel Macon.
• 1826
  • Macon Telegraph newspaper begins publication.^[2]
  • First Presbyterian Church founded.^[3]
• 1829 – Newtown becomes part of Macon.
• 1833 – Steamboat in operation.
• 1834 – City of Macon incorporated.
• 1835 – Robert Augustus Beall elected mayor.
• 1836 – Monroe Railroad Bank built.
• 1838 – Monroe Railroad (Forsyth-Macon) begins operating.
• 1839 – Georgia Female College opens.^[4]
• 1840
  • Rose Hill Cemetery established.
  • Population: 3,927.
• 1843 – The Central of Georgia Railway connects Savannah and Macon.
• 1846 – The Macon and Western Railroad connects Macon and Atlanta; the Small House (residence) built (approximate date).
• 1848 – Telegraph begins operating.^[5]
• 1851 – Georgia State Fair relocates to Macon.^[6]
• 1860
  • Belgian Fair and Cotton Planters' Exposition held.
  • Population: 8,247.
• 1862 – "Arsenal of the Confederate Government moved to Macon" during the American Civil War.
• 1864
  • July 30: Macon besieged by Union forces.
  • "City Hall made temporary State Capitol of Georgia."
• 1865 – April 20: Macon occupied by Union forces.
• 1866 – October 29: Equal Rights and Educational Association of Georgia meeting held in Macon.^[7]
• 1871
  • Mercer University relocates to Macon from Penfield.
  • Bibb Manufacturing Company in business.
• 1874 – Public Library (social library) established.^[8]
• 1876 – Mount de Sales Academy active.
• 1880
  • Telephone begins operating.
  • Population: 12,749.
• 1884
  • Macon Daily News begins publication.
  • Academy of Music built.
• 1887
  • April 6: Riverside Cemetery chartered^[9]
  • August 6: Woolfolk family murdered near Macon.
• 1900 – Price Library (public library) opens.^[10]
• 1906 – Ocmulgee River levee construction begins.
• 1910 – Population: 40,665.
• 1917 – Cox Capitol Theatre in business.
• 1918
  • National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Columbus branch organized (approximate date).
  • Macon Art Association formed.
  • Outbreak of Spanish flu.
• 1919
  • Washington Memorial Library (public library) established.
  • Paul Jones was lynched on November 2, 1919, after being accused of attacking a fifty-year-old white woman. He was burned alive.
• 1921 – Douglass Theatre and Rialto Theatre in business.
• 1922
  • WMAZ radio begins broadcasting.
  • Sherah Israel Synagogue built.^[11]
• 1925 – Macon City Auditorium built.
• 1929 – Luther Williams Field (stadium) opens.
• 1929 – Walker Business College, an African American business and vocational school opens a second campus in Macon^[12]
• 1933 – Citizens & Southern National Bank building constructed.
• 1936
  • Ocmulgee National Monument established.
  • Farmer's Market built.
• 1938 – Bibb Theatre in business.^[13]
• 1948 – WIBB radio begins broadcasting.
• 1949 – Middle Georgia Regional Library headquartered in Macon.
• 1950 – Population: 70,252.
• 1952 – Georgia Journal newspaper begins publication.
• 1953 – WMAZ-TV begins broadcasting.
• 1955 – "Singer James Brown records his first single 'Please, Please, Please' at the studio of WIBB" radio in Macon.
• 1960 – "Stratford Academy founded"
• 1964 – Middle Georgia Historical Society formed.^[14]
• 1965 – Macon Junior College established.
• 1966 – U.S. Supreme Court decides Evans v. Newton desegregation-related lawsuit.^[15]
• 1967
  • December 18: Funeral of musician Otis Redding.^[16]
  • Ronnie Thompson becomes mayor.
• 1970 – Population: 122,423.
• 1978 – Middle Georgia Archives organized.^[17]
• 1983
  • Cherry Blossom Festival begins.
  • Richard Ray becomes U.S. representative for Georgia's 3rd congressional district.^[18]
• 1993 – Sanford Bishop becomes U.S. representative for Georgia's 2nd congressional district.^[19]
• 1994
  • July: Flood.
  • Georgia Sports Hall of Fame relocates to Macon.
• 1999 – C. Jack Ellis becomes mayor.
• 2000 – Population: 97,255.
• 2001 – City website online (approximate date).^[20]
• 2003 – Historic Macon Foundation formed.^[21]
• 2007 – Robert Reichert becomes mayor.
• 2010 – Population: 91,351.^[22]
• 2012 – Governments of Macon city and Bibb County consolidated.
• 2015 – Middle Georgia State University active.

See also

• Macon history
• List of mayors of Macon, Georgia
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Bibb County, Georgia
• Other cities in Georgia:
  • Timeline of Athens, Georgia
  • Timeline of Atlanta
  • Timeline of Augusta, Georgia
  • Timeline of Columbus, Georgia
  • Timeline of Savannah, Georgia

Bibliography

Published in 19th century

• Book: Southern Business Directory. John P. Campbell. Charleston, SC. Press of Walker & James . 1854. Georgia: Bibb County. https://books.google.com/books?id=_IRDAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA213.
  • Book: Historical Record of Macon and Central Georgia . 1879 . J. W. Burke & Company . John C. Butler .

Published in 20th century

• Book: . . Georgia: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons Arranged in Cyclopedic Form . State Historical Association . Atlanta . 1906. Macon . 2 . 511+. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015027784332&seq=511 . HathiTrust. .
  • • Ida Young, Julius Gholson, and Clara Nell Hargrove. History of Macon, Georgia (Macon, Ga.: Lyon, Marshall & Brooks, 1950).
• John A. Eisterhold. "Commercial, Financial, and Industrial Macon, Georgia, During the 1840s", The Georgia Historical Quarterly, Winter 1969, Vol. 53 Issue 4, pp 424–441
• James H. Stone. "Economic Conditions in Macon, Georgia in the 1830s", The Georgia Historical Quarterly, Summer 1970, Vol. 54 Issue 2, pp 209–225
• Bowling C. Yates. "Macon, Georgia, Inland Trading Center 1826–1836", The Georgia Historical Quarterly, Fall 1971, Vol. 55 Issue 3, pp 365–377
• McInvale, Morton Ray "Macon, Georgia: The War Years, 1861–1865" (Ph.D. dissertation, Florida State University, 1973)
• Roger K. Hux. "The Ku Klux Klan in Macon 1919–1925", The Georgia Historical Quarterly, Summer 1978, Vol. 62 Issue 2, pp 155–168
• Nancy Anderson, Macon: A Pictorial History (Virginia Beach, Va.: Donning, 1979).
• Donnie D. Bellamy. "Macon, Georgia, 1823–1860: A Study in Urban Slavery", Phylon 45 (December 1984): 300–304, 308–309
• Kristina Simms. Macon, Georgia's Central City: An Illustrated History (Chatsworth, Calif.: Windsor, 1989).
• 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).
• Matthew W. Norman. "James H. Burton and the Confederate States Armory at Macon", The Georgia Historical Quarterly, Winter 1997, Vol. 81 Issue 4, pp 974–987
• Titus Brown. "A New England Missionary and African-American Education in Macon: Raymond G. Von Tobel at the Ballard Normal School, 1908–1935", The Georgia Historical Quarterly, Summer 1998, Vol. 82 Issue 2, pp 283–304
• Robert S. Davis. Cotton, Fire, & Dreams: The Robert Findlay Iron Works and Heavy Industry in Macon, Georgia, 1839–1912 (Macon, Ga., 1998)
• Book: Richard W. Iobst. Civil War Macon: The History of a Confederate City. 2009 . 1999 . Mercer University Press. 978-0-88146-172-5.
• Book: Macon, Georgia . Jeanne Herring . Arcadia . Charleston, South Carolina . Black America . 2000.

Published in 21st century

• Book: Tracy Maurer. Macon Celebrates the Millennium . Montgomery, Ala. . Community Communications . 1581920342 . 2001 .
• Book: . Macon Black and White: An Unutterable Separation in the American Century. 2004. Mercer University Press. 978-0-86554-958-6.
• Book: Paul T. Hellmann. Historical Gazetteer of the United States. 2006. Taylor & Francis. 1-135-94859-3. Georgia: Macon. .
• Robert Scott Davis. "A Cotton Kingdom Retooled for War: The Macon Arsenal and the Confederate Ordnance Establishment", The Georgia Historical Quarterly, Fall 2007, Vol. 91 Issue 3, pp 266–291
• Candace Dyer, Street Singers, Soul Shakers, Rebels with a Cause: Music from Macon (Macon, Ga.: Indigo Publishing Group, 2008).
• Mara L. Keire. For Business and Pleasure: Red-Light Districts and the Regulation of Vice in the United States, 1890–1933 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010); 248 pages; History and popular culture of districts in Macon, Ga., and other cities
• Book: Images of America . Macon . Charleston, S.C. . Arcadia . 9781467111157. 2013 .

External links

• • Web site: Genealogical & Historical Room . Middle Georgia Regional Library . Macon .
• Items related to Macon, various dates (via Digital Public Library of America)
• Web site: Subject Guides: Macon . Middle Georgia State University Libraries .

Notes and References

1. Web site: Georgia: Individual County Chronologies . Atlas of Historical County Boundaries . Scholl Center for American History and Culture . . Chicago . March 5, 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170305011359/http://publications.newberry.org/ahcbp/ . March 5, 2017 . dead .
2. Web site: US Newspaper Directory . Washington DC . Chronicling America . Library of Congress . March 5, 2017 .
3. Web site: (Bibb County: Macon) . Explore Georgia's Historical Markers . May 22, 2014 . . March 5, 2017 .
4. Book: Ernie Gross. This Day in American History. registration. 1990. Neal-Schuman . 978-1-55570-046-1.
5. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20010407031333/http://www.cityofmacon.net/History/history.htm . Historic Moments in Macon . April 7, 2001 . City of Macon . (Timeline)
6. Web site: Macon Loses Historic Georgia State Fair to New City . October 23, 2013 . . August 25, 2017 . August 26, 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170826044438/http://www.gpb.org/news/2013/10/23/macon-loses-historic-georgia-state-fair-to-new-city . dead .
7. Web site: Conventions by Year . Colored Conventions . University of Delaware, Library . March 4, 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161014020945/http://coloredconventions.org/conventions?by=year . October 14, 2016 . dead .
8. Web site: American Libraries before 1876 . Davies Project . Princeton University . March 4, 2017 .
9. Web site: History of Riverside Cemetery . Riverside Cemetery . April 27, 2017 .
10. Web site: Library History . Middle Georgia Regional Library . March 5, 2017 .
11. Encyclopedia: Macon, Georgia . Encyclopedia of Southern Jewish Communities . . Jackson, Mississippi . March 5, 2017 .
12. January 16, 1942 . Walker's Commercial & Vocational College . The Crisis . The Crisis Publishing Company . 49 . 1 . 12, 17–18, 27 . 0011-1422 . Google Books.
13. Web site: Movie Theaters in Macon, GA . Cinema Treasures LLC . Los Angeles . March 5, 2017 .
14. Story of the Middle Georgia Historical Society, Inc. . John J. Jr. . McKay . Georgia Historical Quarterly . 63 . 1 . 156–160 . 40580094 . 1979 .
15. Book: M. F. . Mikula . etal . Great American Court Cases . Gale . 1999 .
16. Web site: Today in Georgia History . Georgia Historical Society. March 5, 2017 .
17. Web site: Middle Georgia Archives . Macon . March 5, 2017 . March 6, 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170306033859/http://mgaarchives.bibblib.org/middle-georgia-archives . dead .
18. Book: Official Congressional Directory . Washington, D.C. . Government Printing Office . 1983 . Georgia . . Official Congressional Directory . 1991/1992- : S. Pub. . 2027/uc1.31158007157232?urlappend=%3Bseq=80 .
19. Web site: Members of Congress . . Washington DC . March 5, 2017 .
20. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20010404041322/http://www.cityofmacon.net/ . City of Macon, Georgia . April 4, 2001 . .
21. Web site: About . Historic Macon Foundation . March 5, 2017 .
22. Web site: Macon-Bibb County, Georgia . State & County QuickFacts . U.S. Census Bureau . March 4, 2017 .