Timeline of Macon, Georgia
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Macon, Georgia, United States.
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- 1806 – U.S. Fort Hawkins built at the present-day site of Creek Indian Ocmulgee Old Fields (future site of Macon).[1]
- 1821 – Fort Hawkins settlement renamed "Newtown".[1]
- 1822 – Bibb County created.[2]
- 1823 – Town of Macon incorporated; named after North Carolina statesman Nathaniel Macon.[1]
- 1826
- Macon Telegraph newspaper begins publication.[3]
- First Presbyterian Church founded.[4]
- 1829 – Newtown becomes part of Macon.[1]
- 1833 – Steamboat in operation.[1]
- 1834 – City of Macon incorporated.[5]
- 1835 – Robert Augustus Beall elected mayor.
- 1836 – Monroe Railroad Bank built.[6]
- 1838 – Monroe Railroad (Forsyth-Macon) begins operating.[5]
- 1839 – Georgia Female College opens.[7]
- 1840
- Rose Hill Cemetery established.
- Population: 3,927.[8]
- 1843 – The Central of Georgia Railway connects Savannah and Macon.[6]
- 1846 – The Macon and Western Railroad connects Macon and Atlanta; the Small House (residence) built (approximate date).[6]
- 1848 – Telegraph begins operating.[9]
- 1851 – Georgia State Fair relocates to Macon.[5][10]
- 1860
- 1862 – "Arsenal of the Confederate Government moved to Macon" during the American Civil War.[9]
- 1864
- July 30: Macon besieged by Union forces.[5]
- "City Hall made temporary State Capitol of Georgia."[9]
- 1865 – April 20: Macon occupied by Union forces.[1]
- 1866 – October 29: Equal Rights and Educational Association of Georgia meeting held in Macon.[11]
- 1871
- Mercer University relocates to Macon from Penfield.[5]
- Bibb Manufacturing Company in business.[6]
- 1874 – Public Library (social library) established.[12]
- 1876 – Mount de Sales Academy active.
- 1880
- 1884
- Macon Daily News begins publication.[3]
- Academy of Music built.
- 1887
- April 6: Riverside Cemetery chartered[13]
- August 6: Woolfolk family murdered near Macon.[14]
- 1900 – Price Library (public library) opens.[15]
- 1906 – Ocmulgee River levee construction begins.[6]
- 1910 – Population: 40,665.
- 1917 – Cox Capitol Theatre in business.
- 1918
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Columbus branch organized (approximate date).[16]
- Macon Art Association formed.[17]
- Outbreak of Spanish flu.[14]
- 1919
- Washington Memorial Library (public library) established.[6]
- 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.[18]
- 1922
- 1925 – Macon City Auditorium built.[6]
- 1929 – Luther Williams Field (stadium) opens.
- 1929 – Walker Business College, an African American business and vocational school opens a second campus in Macon[21]
- 1933 – Citizens & Southern National Bank building constructed.[6]
- 1936
- Ocmulgee National Monument established.
- Farmer's Market built.[6]
- 1938 – Bibb Theatre in business.[18]
- 1948 – WIBB radio begins broadcasting.
- 1949 – Middle Georgia Regional Library headquartered in Macon.
- 1950 – Population: 70,252.
- 1952 – Georgia Journal newspaper begins publication.[3]
- 1953 – WMAZ-TV begins broadcasting.[22]
- 1955 – "Singer James Brown records his first single 'Please, Please, Please' at the studio of WIBB" radio in Macon.[9]
- 1960 – "Stratford Academy founded"
- 1964 – Middle Georgia Historical Society formed.[23]
- 1965 – Macon Junior College established.[5]
- 1966 – U.S. Supreme Court decides Evans v. Newton desegregation-related lawsuit.[24]
- 1967
- December 18: Funeral of musician Otis Redding.[14]
- Ronnie Thompson becomes mayor.
- 1970 – Population: 122,423.
- 1978 – Middle Georgia Archives organized.[25]
- 1983
- Cherry Blossom Festival begins.[9]
- Richard Ray becomes U.S. representative for Georgia's 3rd congressional district.[26]
- 1993 – Sanford Bishop becomes U.S. representative for Georgia's 2nd congressional district.[27]
- 1994
- July: Flood.[9]
- Georgia Sports Hall of Fame relocates to Macon.[14]
- 1999 – C. Jack Ellis becomes mayor.[9]
- 2000 – Population: 97,255.
- 2001 – City website online (approximate date).[28][chronology citation needed]
- 2003 – Historic Macon Foundation formed.[29]
- 2007 – Robert Reichert becomes mayor.
- 2010 – Population: 91,351.[30]
- 2012 – Governments of Macon city and Bibb County consolidated.
- 2015 – Middle Georgia State University active.
See also
[edit]- Macon history
- List of mayors of Macon, Georgia
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Bibb County, Georgia
- Other cities in Georgia:
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f Candler & Evans 1906.
- ^ Scholl Center for American History and Culture. "Georgia: Individual County Chronologies". Atlas of Historical County Boundaries. Chicago: Newberry Library. Archived from the original on March 5, 2017. Retrieved March 5, 2017.
- ^ a b c "US Newspaper Directory". Chronicling America. Washington DC: Library of Congress. Retrieved March 5, 2017.
- ^ "(Bibb County: Macon)". Explore Georgia's Historical Markers. Georgia Historical Society. May 22, 2014. Retrieved March 5, 2017.
- ^ a b c d e f Hellmann 2006.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Federal Writers' Project 1940.
- ^ Ernie Gross (1990). This Day in American History. Neal-Schuman. ISBN 978-1-55570-046-1.
- ^ a b c Waring 1887.
- ^ a b c d e f g h "Historic Moments in Macon". City of Macon. Archived from the original on April 7, 2001. (Timeline)
- ^ "Macon Loses Historic Georgia State Fair to New City". Georgia Public Broadcasting. October 23, 2013. Archived from the original on August 26, 2017. Retrieved August 25, 2017.
- ^ "Conventions by Year". Colored Conventions. University of Delaware, Library. Archived from the original on October 14, 2016. Retrieved March 4, 2017.
- ^ Davies Project. "American Libraries before 1876". Princeton University. Retrieved March 4, 2017.
- ^ "History of Riverside Cemetery". Riverside Cemetery. Retrieved April 27, 2017.
- ^ a b c d "Today in Georgia History". Georgia Historical Society; Georgia Public Broadcasting. Retrieved March 5, 2017.
- ^ "Library History". Middle Georgia Regional Library. Retrieved March 5, 2017.
- ^ "Membership: Georgia", Report...1917 and 1918, NAACP annual report (1948), New York: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 1919, pp. 10 v, hdl:2027/uiug.30112051986880
- ^ American Art Annual, vol. 17, NY: American Federation of Arts, 1920
- ^ a b "Movie Theaters in Macon, GA". Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved March 5, 2017.
- ^ Jack Alicoate, ed. (1939), "Standard Broadcasting Stations of the United States: Georgia", Radio Annual, New York: Radio Daily, OCLC 2459636
- ^ "Macon, Georgia". Encyclopedia of Southern Jewish Communities. Jackson, Mississippi: Goldring / Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life. Retrieved March 5, 2017.
- ^ "Walker's Commercial & Vocational College". The Crisis. 49 (1). The Crisis Publishing Company: 12, 17–18, 27. January 16, 1942. ISSN 0011-1422 – via Google Books.
- ^ Alicoate, Charles A., ed. (1960), "Television Stations: Georgia", Radio Annual and Television Year Book, New York: Radio Daily Corp., OCLC 10512206
- ^ McKay, John J. Jr. (1979). "Story of the Middle Georgia Historical Society, Inc". Georgia Historical Quarterly. 63 (1): 156–160. JSTOR 40580094.
- ^ Mikula, M. F.; et al., eds. (1999). Great American Court Cases. Gale.
- ^ "Middle Georgia Archives". Macon. Archived from the original on March 6, 2017. Retrieved March 5, 2017.
- ^ "Georgia". Official Congressional Directory. 1991/1992- : S. Pub. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office. 1983. hdl:2027/uc1.31158007157232 – via HathiTrust.
- ^ "Members of Congress". GovTrack. Washington DC. Retrieved March 5, 2017.
- ^ "City of Macon, Georgia". Archived from the original on April 4, 2001 – via Internet Archive, Wayback Machine.
- ^ "About". Historic Macon Foundation. Retrieved March 5, 2017.
- ^ "Macon-Bibb County, Georgia". State & County QuickFacts. U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved March 4, 2017.
Bibliography
[edit]- Published in 19th century
- John P. Campbell, ed. (1854). "Georgia: Bibb County". Southern Business Directory. Charleston, SC: Press of Walker & James.
- Adiel Sherwood (1860), "Bibb County: Macon", Gazetteer of Georgia (4th ed.), Macon: S. Boykin
- John C. Butler (1879). Historical Record of Macon and Central Georgia. J. W. Burke & Company.
- George E. Waring, Jr.; U.S. Department of the Interior, Census Office (1887), "Georgia: Macon", Report on the Social Statistics of Cities: Southern and the Western States, Washington DC: Government Printing Office, pp. 169–172
- "Macon", Rand, McNally & Co.'s Handy Guide to the Southeastern States, Chicago: Rand, McNally & Co., 1899 – via Internet Archive
- Published in 20th century
- Allen D. Candler; Clement A. Evans, eds. (1906). "Macon". Georgia: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons Arranged in Cyclopedic Form. Vol. 2. Atlanta: State Historical Association. pp. 511+ – via HathiTrust.
- "Macon", Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Federal Writers' Project (1940), "Macon", Georgia: a Guide to Its Towns and Countryside, American Guide Series, Athens: University of Georgia Press, p. 102+
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: ref duplicates default (link) - 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)
- Richard W. Iobst (2009) [1999]. Civil War Macon: The History of a Confederate City. Mercer University Press. ISBN 978-0-88146-172-5.
- Jeanne Herring (2000). Macon, Georgia. Black America. Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia.
- Published in 21st century
- Tracy Maurer (2001). Macon Celebrates the Millennium. Montgomery, Ala.: Community Communications. ISBN 1581920342.
- Andrew Michael Manis (2004). Macon Black and White: An Unutterable Separation in the American Century. Mercer University Press. ISBN 978-0-86554-958-6.
- Paul T. Hellmann (2006). "Georgia: Macon". Historical Gazetteer of the United States. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 1-135-94859-3.
- 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
- Macon. Images of America. Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia. 2013. ISBN 9781467111157.
External links
[edit]- "Macon", New Georgia Encyclopedia, Georgia Humanities Council
- "Genealogical & Historical Room". Macon: Middle Georgia Regional Library.
- Items related to Macon, various dates (via Digital Public Library of America)
- "Subject Guides: Macon". Middle Georgia State University Libraries.