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Macon, Georgia

City with a population of 93,076 in 2008. County seat of Bibb County. Originally the city of settlement by Creek Indians. Thomas Jefferson ordered a fort built here in 1806 on the fall line of the Ocmulgee River after the Creeks ceded the land east of the river to the United States. American settlers began to move here, and named the town they built Newtown. When Bibb County was established in 1822, the town was designated county seat. In 1823 it was renamed to honor North Carolina statesman Nathaniel Macon. Served as the official state arsenal during the Confederacy. General Sherman spared the city during his March to the Sea through Georgia, and thus it served as a temporary state capital in 1864-65 when the nearby capital of Milledgeville was destroyed.

Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macon,_GA

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Recent city comments:

Graphic Packaging Mill, Mudéjar. (guest) wrote 9 years ago:

This mill is quite close to the Ocmulgee River.
Duane Allman Crash Site, Darrell R. Brock (guest) wrote 11 years ago:

Hard to believe so gifted! I began to listen to his music the last year of his life. My friend who introduced me to his music met him, front row.
Duane Allman Crash Site, John (guest) wrote 13 years ago:

Not yet 25 years old and already one of the greatest guitarists of all time.
Macon Naval Ordnance Plant - NOrd(F)-1179, Big Daddy (guest) wrote 14 years ago:

Three of the former residences are gone. The five in the "V" were well constructed and very nice. And it looks like the pool might still be there, but not usable.
Duane Allman Crash Site, WikiMapper wrote 15 years ago:

It was a large flatbed truck carrying heavy piping and not a lorry carrying peaches (that legend comes from the Eat a Peach album)