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Mar 3, 2023 · March 03, 2023. • 7 min read. Thousands of years ago, the site now known as Ocmulgee Mounds, in central Georgia, was a thriving Indigenous center. Artifacts found there date as far back as 8000...
Jan 21, 2003 · Macon, the seat of Bibb County, is the retail, medical, financial, educational, and cultural center of a still predominantly rural section of middle Georgia.. Named for North Carolina statesman and U.S.senator Nathaniel Macon, the city was established at the point where the Upper Coastal Plain rises to join the Piedmont, above which the Ocmulgee River is no longer navigable.
Aug 9, 2004 · Europeans first reached the Ocmulgee River in 1540, when Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto’s expedition came to Ichisi, a late Mississippian chiefdom that archaeologists now locate on the floodplain south of Macon. By the mid-seventeenth century, however, the Indians who had fed de Soto’s party on corncakes, wild onions, and roasted venison ...
Sep 25, 2009 · Established in 1732, with settlement in Savannah in 1733, Georgia was the last of the thirteen colonies to be founded. Its formation came a half-century after the twelfth British colony, Pennsylvania, was chartered (in 1681) and seventy years after South Carolina’s founding (in 1663).
As a top homebuilder in Georgia, Century Complete is excited to offer beautiful new houses for sale in Macon, GA! Southern charm comes to life in Macon, where a soulful musical heritage meets historic sites, museums, and much more.
After two trials, and two appeals, Tom Woolfolk was convicted and hanged in 1890. Many questions remain about Georgia’s first mass murder, and exactly what happened on that bloody morning, August 6, 1887, Today in Georgia History.
This category has the following 22 subcategories, out of 22 total. 1st-century establishments by country (11 C)
