Macon Georgia http://macon360.com macon360.com Fri, 16 Nov 2007 19:35:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 en About Macon http://macon360.com/archives/11 http://macon360.com/archives/11#comments Tue, 17 Jul 2007 16:23:19 +0000 Admin drin 32.815 -83.6719 32.8242 -83.7598 0 0 32.8404 -83.6664 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 http://macon360.com/archives/11 Macon360.com - your source for everything around Macon.The city planners of Macon envisioned “a city within a park” and went about creating a city of spacious streets and parks. They also designated 250 acres for Central City Park and citizens were required by ordinances to plant shade trees in their front yards. The city thrived due to its location on the Ocmulgee River and cotton became the mainstay of Macon’s early economy. Cotton boats, stage coaches, and later, in 1843, a railroad all brought economic prosperity to Macon. In 1836, Wesleyan College, the oldest women’s college in the world, was founded in Macon. During the American Civil War, Macon served as the official arsenal of the Confederacy and Macon City Hall, which would serve as the temporary state capitol in 1864, was converted to use as a hospital for the wounded. However, Macon was spared by General William Tecumseh Sherman on his march to the sea. The nearby state capital of Milledgeville had been sacked and Maconites prepared for an attack. But General Sherman feared that Confederate forces were preparing a unified attack of their own and therefore bypassed Macon. Throughout the era of Reconstruction and into the twentieth century, Macon grew into a prospering town in Middle Georgia, and began to serve as a transportation hub for the entire state. (more…)

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