Macon,GA-Where the South Rocks!

Posted June 18, 201410 yr

I'm getting out of the Air Force soon and I'm moving back to Georgia. This past weekend I drove to Georgia to start looking for apartments and on the way stopped in Macon for a few hours. This is my first photo thread in a long time. I purchased a new Canon Rebel camera last month. I hope you all enjoy these photos. On with the show!

Macon is located in Middle Georgia, its about 80 miles south of Atlanta. It's the state's fourth largest city with 155,000 people. In 2012 the voters of Old Macon and Bibb County voted to merge the governments and it became official as of January 1, 2014. The city is known for its rich musical history, being the home of the Allman Brothers, Little Richard and Otis Redding. Lesser known is that Macon is also an emerging college town, being the home of Mercer University, Middle Georgia State College and Wesleyan College, a

private women's liberal arts college.

The world famous Nu-Way Weiner's

Macon also hosts an awesome film festival every year. It was recently voted one of the coolest in the world.

This is the Tubman Museum of African American History. Opened in 1981, the museum was originally housed in a 9,800 sq. ft. facility. Construction started on a replacement in 2009, but construction stopped two years later. Earlier, this year construction resumed on the 49,000 sq. ft. museum. Once complete it will be the largest museum of its kind in Georgia.

These homes are part of the Beall's Heights redevelopment that was completed ten years ago. It was a former housing project that the city tore down.

Mercer University has been a major player in redeveloping the area surrounding the school. In 2008, it launched the College Hill Corridor project to improve the area between its campus and Downtown Macon. Since then millions of dollars have been poured into the area. This is phase III of the Mercer Village lofts.

Macon's historic train station. It has been fully restored and turned into the headquarters for the Macon Transit Authority.

This is the old Georgia Sports Hall of Fame. It closed in 2011, a year later Mercer University purchased the facility and plans to turn it into the home for its Health Sciences program.