Timeline of Macon, Georgia Bowling

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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Macon, Georgia, USA.

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19th century

• 1806 - U.S. Fort Hawkins built at 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 politician 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 - Savannah-Macon railway begins operating.
• 1846 - 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.

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20th century

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

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21st century

• 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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