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Macon, Georgia

USA / Georgia / Macon /
 city, county seat

City with a population of 93,076 in 2008. County seat of Bibb County. Originally the city of settlement by Creek Indians. Thomas Jefferson ordered a fort built here in 1806 on the fall line of the Ocmulgee River after the Creeks ceded the land east of the river to the United States. American settlers began to move here, and named the town they built Newtown. When Bibb County was established in 1822, the town was designated county seat. In 1823 it was renamed to honor North Carolina statesman Nathaniel Macon. Served as the official state arsenal during the Confederacy. General Sherman spared the city during his March to the Sea through Georgia, and thus it served as a temporary state capital in 1864-65 when the nearby capital of Milledgeville was destroyed.
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Coordinates:   32°50'22"N   83°38'22"W
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