# Timeline of Macon, Georgia

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
** 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 – 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
** 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.
* 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.
** 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.
* 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
** 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.
* 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
** 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.
* 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.