Macon, Georgia
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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.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macon,_GA
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 32°50'22"N 83°38'22"W
- Augusta, Georgia 143 km
- Columbia, South Carolina 274 km
- Charleston, South Carolina 327 km
- Goose Creek, South Carolina 328 km
- Knoxville, Tennessee 362 km
- Charlotte, North Carolina 370 km
- Winston-Salem, North Carolina 479 km
- Greensboro, North Carolina 503 km
- Cary, North Carolina 550 km
- Durham, North Carolina 559 km
- Downtown Macon 1 km
- Ocmulgee National Monument 3.2 km
- Bibb County, Georgia 6 km
- Macon Naval Ordnance Plant - NOrd(F)-1179 7.1 km
- Graphic Packaging Mill 7.6 km
- Middle Georgia Regional Airport 16 km
- Kaolin Mine 17 km
- J M Huber Corp 17 km
- Jones County, Georgia 20 km
- Twiggs County, Georgia 27 km