Timeline of Macon, Georgia facts for kids

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.
• 1823 – Town of Macon incorporated; named after North Carolina statesman Nathaniel Macon.
• 1826
  • Macon Telegraph newspaper begins publication.
  • First Presbyterian Church founded.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1851 – Georgia State Fair relocates to Macon.
• 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.
• 1871
  • Mercer University relocates to Macon from Penfield.
  • Bibb Manufacturing Company in business.
• 1874 – Public Library (social library) established.
• 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
  • August 6: Woolfolk family murdered near Macon.
• 1900 – Price Library (public library) opens.
• 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.
• 1921 – Douglass Theatre and Rialto Theatre in business.
• 1922
  • WMAZ radio begins broadcasting.
  • Sherah Israel Synagogue built.
• 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
• 1933 – Citizens & Southern National Bank building constructed.
• 1936
  • Ocmulgee National Monument established.
  • Farmer's Market built.
• 1938 – Bibb Theatre in business.
• 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.
• 1965 – Macon Junior College established.
• 1966 – U.S. Supreme Court decides Evans v. Newton desegregation-related lawsuit.
• 1967
  • December 18: Funeral of musician Otis Redding.
  • Ronnie Thompson becomes mayor.
• 1970 – Population: 122,423.
• 1978 – Middle Georgia Archives organized.
• 1983
  • Cherry Blossom Festival begins.
  • Richard Ray becomes U.S. representative for Georgia's 3rd congressional district.
• 1993 – Sanford Bishop becomes U.S. representative for Georgia's 2nd congressional district.
• 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).
• 2003 – Historic Macon Foundation formed.
• 2007 – Robert Reichert becomes mayor.
• 2010 – Population: 91,351.
• 2012 – Governments of Macon city and Bibb County consolidated.
• 2015 – Middle Georgia State University active.