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The Best Attractions In Macon

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Macon , officially Macon–Bibb County, is a consolidated city-county located in the state of Georgia, United States. Macon lies near the geographic center of the state, approximately 85 miles south of Atlanta, hence the city's nickname The Heart of Georgia. Located near the fall line of the Ocmulgee River, Macon is the county seat of Bibb County and had a 2017 estimated population of 152,663. Macon is the principal city of the Macon metropolitan area, which had an estimated population of 228,914 in 2017. Macon is also the largest city in the Macon–Warner Robins Combined Statistical Area , a larger trading area with an estimated 420,693 residents in ...
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  • 1. Ocmulgee National Monument Macon
    The Ocmulgee River is a western tributary of the Altamaha River, approximately 255 mi long, in the U.S. state of Georgia. It is the westernmost major tributary of the Altamaha.The Ocmulgee River and its tributaries provide drainage for some 6,180 square miles in parts of 33 Georgia counties, a large section of the Piedmont and coastal plain of central Georgia.The Ocmulgee River basin has three river subbasins designated by the U.S. Geological Survey: the Upper Ocmulgee River subbasin ; the Lower Ocmulgee River Subbasin ; and the Little Ocmulgee River Subbasin .The name of the river may have come from a Hitchiti words oki plus molki , possibly meaning where the water boils up.
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  • 4. The Allman Brothers Band Museum at the Big House Macon
    The Allman Brothers Band Museum, also known as The Big House, is a museum in Macon, Georgia, United States. It was the home to The Allman Brothers Band's original members, their families, and various friends from 1970 to 1973. The Big House was renovated by The Big House Foundation and opened in November 2009 as an interactive museum dedicated to identifying and preserving the history of The Allman Brothers Band.
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  • 5. Museum of Arts and Sciences Macon
    The Museum of Arts and Sciences in Macon is a community museum in the U.S. state of Georgia. The facility includes four galleries with frequently changing exhibitions, the Discovery House with hands-on activities, live animal habitats, the Mark Smith Planetarium, an observatory, nature trail, garden, store, auditorium and classrooms. New exhibitions on fine arts, science topics, and the humanities are presented for durations of four to six months. The museum is open to the public daily and offers programs to schools and groups. Tours of the Mini-Zoo are presented daily along with planetarium shows, which feature new astronomical topics every two months.
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  • 6. Rose Hill Cemetery Macon
    Rose Hill Cemetery is in Macon, Georgia, U.S. The cemetery opened in 1840. The cemetery is part of a self-guided walking tour of Macon and is the site of the bi-annual Rose Hill Ramble sponsored by the Middle Georgia Historical Society. It was designed by Simri Rose. Rose was instrumental in the planning of The City of Macon and planned Rose Hill Cemetery, in return for being able to choose his own burial plot. The cemetery was a hangout and artistic inspiration for the Allman Brothers Band during their early years. The Allman Brothers' slide guitarist Duane Allman, keyboardist and vocalist Gregg Allman and bassist Berry Oakley are interred here, side by side. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.
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  • 7. Cannonball House Macon
    The Cannonball House located in Macon, Georgia, United States was constructed in 1853. The house was named the Cannonball House because of cannonball-inflicted damage sustained during the Civil War. The house was built using an authentic Greek revival architectural style and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. The recreated meeting rooms of the Adelphean and Philomathean societies can be found on display inside the house. The entire house is furnished to the 1853 period. The rear of the Cannonball House is occupied by a two-story kitchen built of hand-molded brick. The upper level of this house formerly served as servants' quarters. Few structures of this type remain in the South today. A bronze cannon, forged in 1864 at the Macon Arsenal, can be found on display in fron...
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  • 8. Georgia Sports Hall of Fame Macon
    The Georgia Sports Hall of Fame is located in Macon, Georgia, USA. It is the largest state sports hall of fame in America at 43,000 square feet .
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  • 9. Grand Opera House Macon
    The Grand Opera House, often called The Grand and originally known as the Academy of Music, is a historic opera house located in Macon, Georgia, United States. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970, it is now the performing arts center of Mercer University.
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  • 11. Sidney Lanier Cottage Macon
    Sidney Clopton Lanier was an American musician, poet and author. He served in the Confederate States Army as a private, worked on a blockade-running ship for which he was imprisoned , taught, worked at a hotel where he gave musical performances, was a church organist, and worked as a lawyer. As a poet he sometimes, though not exclusively, used dialects. Many of his poems are written in heightened, but often archaic, American English. He became a flautist and sold poems to publications. He eventually became a professor of literature at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and is known for his adaptation of musical meter to poetry. Many schools, other structures and two lakes are named for him, and he became hailed in the South as the poet of the Confederacy.
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