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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
  • 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
  • 1865 – April 20: Macon occupied by Union forces.
  • 1866 – October 29: Equal Rights and Educational Association of Georgia meeting held in Macon.
  • 1871
  • 1874 – Public Library (social library) established.
  • 1876 – Mount de Sales Academy active.
  • 1880
    • Telephone begins operating.
    • Population: 12,749.
  • 1884
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1993 – Sanford Bishop becomes U.S. representative for Georgia's 2nd congressional district.
  • 1994
  • 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.
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