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).[ 1]
1821 – Fort Hawkins settlement renamed "Newtown".[ 1]
1822 – Bibb County created.[ 2]
1823 – Town of Macon incorporated; named after North Carolina statesman Nathaniel Macon .[ 1]
1826
1829 – Newtown becomes part of Macon.[ 1]
1833 – Steamboat in operation.[ 1]
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.[ 7]
1840
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.[ 9]
1851 – Georgia State Fair relocates to Macon.[ 10]
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 .[ 9]
1864
1865 – April 20: Macon occupied by Union forces.[ 1]
1866 – October 29: Equal Rights and Educational Association of Georgia meeting held in Macon.[ 11]
1871
1874 – Public Library (social library ) established.[ 12]
1876 – Mount de Sales Academy active.
1880
Telephone begins operating.[ 9]
Population: 12,749.
1884
1887
1900 – Price Library (public library) opens.[ 15]
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. He was burned alive.
1921 – Douglass Theatre and Rialto Theatre in business.[ 18]
1922
WMAZ radio begins broadcasting.[ 19]
Sherah Israel Synagogue built.[ 20]
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[ 21]
1933 – Citizens & Southern National Bank building constructed.
1936
1938 – Bibb Theatre in business.[ 18]
1948 – WIBB radio begins broadcasting.
1949 – Middle Georgia Regional Library headquartered in Macon.
1950 – Population: 70,252.
1952 – Georgia Journal newspaper begins publication.[ 3]
1953 – WMAZ-TV begins broadcasting.[ 22]
1955 – "Singer James Brown records his first single 'Please, Please, Please ' at the studio of WIBB" radio in Macon.[ 9]
1960 – "Stratford Academy founded"
1964 – Middle Georgia Historical Society formed.[ 23]
1965 – Macon Junior College established.
1966 – U.S. Supreme Court decides Evans v. Newton desegregation -related lawsuit.[ 24]
1967
1970 – Population: 122,423.
1978 – Middle Georgia Archives organized.[ 25]
1983
1993 – Sanford Bishop becomes U.S. representative for Georgia's 2nd congressional district .[ 27]
1994
1999 – C. Jack Ellis becomes mayor.[ 9]
2000 – Population: 97,255.
2001 – City website online (approximate date).[ 28] [chronology citation needed ]
2003 – Historic Macon Foundation formed.[ 29]
2007 – Robert Reichert becomes mayor.
2010 – Population: 91,351.[ 30]
2012 – Governments of Macon city and Bibb County consolidated .
2015 – Middle Georgia State University active.
^ a b c d e f Candler & Evans 1906 . sfn error: no target: CITEREFCandlerEvans1906 (help )
^ Scholl Center for American History and Culture. "Georgia: Individual County Chronologies" . Atlas of Historical County Boundaries . Chicago: Newberry Library . Archived from the original on March 5, 2017. Retrieved March 5, 2017 .
^ a b c "US Newspaper Directory" . Chronicling America . Washington DC: Library of Congress. Retrieved March 5, 2017 .
^ "(Bibb County: Macon)" . Explore Georgia's Historical Markers . Georgia Historical Society . May 22, 2014. Retrieved March 5, 2017 .
^ Ernie Gross (1990). This Day in American History . Neal-Schuman. ISBN 978-1-55570-046-1 .
^ a b c d e f g h "Historic Moments in Macon" . City of Macon. Archived from the original on April 7, 2001. (Timeline)
^ "Macon Loses Historic Georgia State Fair to New City" . Georgia Public Broadcasting . October 23, 2013. Archived from the original on August 26, 2017. Retrieved August 25, 2017 .
^ "Conventions by Year" . Colored Conventions . University of Delaware, Library. Archived from the original on October 14, 2016. Retrieved March 4, 2017 .
^ Davies Project. "American Libraries before 1876" . Princeton University. Retrieved March 4, 2017 .
^ "History of Riverside Cemetery" . Riverside Cemetery . Retrieved April 27, 2017 .
^ a b c d "Today in Georgia History" . Georgia Historical Society ; Georgia Public Broadcasting . Retrieved March 5, 2017 .
^ "Library History" . Middle Georgia Regional Library. Retrieved March 5, 2017 .
^ "Membership: Georgia", Report...1917 and 1918 , NAACP annual report (1948), New York: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 1919, pp. 10 v, hdl :2027/uiug.30112051986880
^ American Art Annual , vol. 17, NY: American Federation of Arts, 1920
^ a b "Movie Theaters in Macon, GA" . Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved March 5, 2017 .
^ Jack Alicoate, ed. (1939), "Standard Broadcasting Stations of the United States: Georgia" , Radio Annual , New York: Radio Daily, OCLC 2459636
^ "Macon, Georgia" . Encyclopedia of Southern Jewish Communities . Jackson, Mississippi: Goldring / Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life . Retrieved March 5, 2017 .
^ "Walker's Commercial & Vocational College" . The Crisis . 49 (1). The Crisis Publishing Company: 12, 17–18, 27. January 16, 1942. ISSN 0011-1422 – via Google Books.
^ Alicoate, Charles A., ed. (1960), "Television Stations: Georgia" , Radio Annual and Television Year Book , New York: Radio Daily Corp., OCLC 10512206
^ McKay, John J. Jr. (1979). "Story of the Middle Georgia Historical Society, Inc". Georgia Historical Quarterly . 63 (1): 156–160. JSTOR 40580094 .
^ Mikula, M. F.; et al., eds. (1999). Great American Court Cases . Gale.
^ "Middle Georgia Archives" . Macon. Archived from the original on March 6, 2017. Retrieved March 5, 2017 .
^ "Georgia". Official Congressional Directory . 1991/1992- : S. Pub. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office. 1983. hdl :2027/uc1.31158007157232 – via HathiTrust .
^ "Members of Congress" . GovTrack . Washington DC. Retrieved March 5, 2017 .
^ "City of Macon, Georgia" . Archived from the original on April 4, 2001 – via Internet Archive, Wayback Machine .
^ "About" . Historic Macon Foundation. Retrieved March 5, 2017 .
^ "Macon-Bibb County, Georgia" . State & County QuickFacts . U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved March 4, 2017 .