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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
- Macon Telegraph newspaper begins publication.^[3]
- First Presbyterian Church founded.^[4]
1829 – Newtown becomes part of Macon.^[1]
1833 – Steamboat in operation.^[1]
1834 – City of Macon incorporated.^[5]
1835 – Robert Augustus Beall elected mayor.
1836 – Monroe Railroad Bank built.^[6]
1838 – Monroe Railroad (Forsyth-Macon) begins operating.^[5]
1839 – Georgia Female College opens.^[7]
1840
- Rose Hill Cemetery established.
- Population: 3,927.^[8]
1843 – The Central of Georgia Railway connects Savannah and Macon.^[6]
1846 – The Macon and Western Railroad connects Macon and Atlanta; the Small House (residence) built (approximate date).^[6]
1848 – Telegraph begins operating.^[9]
1851 – Georgia State Fair relocates to Macon.^[5]^[10]
1860
- Belgian Fair and Cotton Planters' Exposition held.^[6]
- Population: 8,247.^[8]
1862 – "Arsenal of the Confederate Government moved to Macon" during the American Civil War.^[9]
1864
- July 30: Macon besieged by Union forces.^[5]
- "City Hall made temporary State Capitol of Georgia."^[9]
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
- Mercer University relocates to Macon from Penfield.^[5]
- Bibb Manufacturing Company in business.^[6]
1874 – Public Library (social library) established.^[12]
1876 – Mount de Sales Academy active.
1880
- Telephone begins operating.^[9]
- Population: 12,749.^[8]
1884
- Macon Daily News begins publication.^[3]
- Academy of Music built.
1887
- April 6: Riverside Cemetery chartered^[13]
- August 6: Woolfolk family murdered near Macon.^[14]
1900 – Price Library (public library) opens.^[15]
1906 – Ocmulgee River levee construction begins.^[6]
1910 – Population: 40,665.
1917 – Cox Capitol Theatre in business.
1918
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Columbus branch organized (approximate date).^[16]
- Macon Art Association formed.^[17]
- Outbreak of Spanish flu.^[14]
1919
- Washington Memorial Library (public library) established.^[6]
- 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.^[6]
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.^[6]
1936
- Ocmulgee National Monument established.
- Farmer's Market built.^[6]
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.^[5]
1966 – U.S. Supreme Court decides Evans v. Newton desegregation-related lawsuit.^[24]
1967
- December 18: Funeral of musician Otis Redding.^[14]
- Ronnie Thompson becomes mayor.
1970 – Population: 122,423.
1978 – Middle Georgia Archives organized.^[25]
1983
- Cherry Blossom Festival begins.^[9]
- Richard Ray becomes U.S. representative for Georgia's 3rd congressional district.^[26]
1993 – Sanford Bishop becomes U.S. representative for Georgia's 2nd congressional district.^[27]
1994
- July: Flood.^[9]
- Georgia Sports Hall of Fame relocates to Macon.^[14]
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.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Candler & Evans 1906.
^ 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.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Hellmann 2006.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j Federal Writers' Project 1940.
^ Ernie Gross (1990). This Day in American History. Neal-Schuman. ISBN 978-1-55570-046-1.
^ ^a ^b ^c Waring 1887.
^ ^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.

Bibliography

Published in 19th century

John P. Campbell, ed. (1854). "Georgia: Bibb County". Southern Business Directory. Charleston, SC: Press of Walker & James.
Adiel Sherwood (1860), "Bibb County: Macon", Gazetteer of Georgia (4th ed.), Macon: S. Boykin
John C. Butler (1879). Historical Record of Macon and Central Georgia. J. W. Burke & Company.
George E. Waring, Jr.; U.S. Department of the Interior, Census Office (1887), "Georgia: Macon", Report on the Social Statistics of Cities: Southern and the Western States, Washington DC: Government Printing Office, pp. 169–172
"Macon", Rand, McNally & Co.'s Handy Guide to the Southeastern States, Chicago: Rand, McNally & Co., 1899 – via Internet Archive

Published in 20th century

Allen D. Candler; Clement A. Evans, eds. (1906). "Macon". Georgia: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons Arranged in Cyclopedic Form. Vol. 2. Atlanta: State Historical Association. pp. 511+.
"Macon", Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
Federal Writers' Project (1940), "Macon", Georgia: a Guide to Its Towns and Countryside, American Guide Series, Athens: University of Georgia Press, p. 102+{{citation}}: CS1 maint: ref duplicates default (link)
Ida Young, Julius Gholson, and Clara Nell Hargrove. History of Macon, Georgia (Macon, Ga.: Lyon, Marshall & Brooks, 1950).
John A. Eisterhold. "Commercial, Financial, and Industrial Macon, Georgia, During the 1840s", The Georgia Historical Quarterly, Winter 1969, Vol. 53 Issue 4, pp 424–441
James H. Stone. "Economic Conditions in Macon, Georgia in the 1830s", The Georgia Historical Quarterly, Summer 1970, Vol. 54 Issue 2, pp 209–225
Bowling C. Yates. "Macon, Georgia, Inland Trading Center 1826–1836", The Georgia Historical Quarterly, Fall 1971, Vol. 55 Issue 3, pp 365–377
McInvale, Morton Ray "Macon, Georgia: The War Years, 1861–1865" (Ph.D. dissertation, Florida State University, 1973)
Roger K. Hux. "The Ku Klux Klan in Macon 1919–1925", The Georgia Historical Quarterly, Summer 1978, Vol. 62 Issue 2, pp 155–168
Nancy Anderson, Macon: A Pictorial History (Virginia Beach, Va.: Donning, 1979).
Donnie D. Bellamy. "Macon, Georgia, 1823–1860: A Study in Urban Slavery", Phylon 45 (December 1984): 300–304, 308–309
Kristina Simms. Macon, Georgia's Central City: An Illustrated History (Chatsworth, Calif.: Windsor, 1989).
Titus Brown. "Origins of African American Education in Macon, Georgia 1865–1866", Journal of South Georgia History, Oct 1996, Vol. 11, pp 43–59
Macon: An Architectural Historical Guide (Macon, Ga.: Middle Georgia Historical Society, 1996).
Macon's Black Heritage: The Untold Story (Macon, Ga.: Tubman African American Museum, 1997).
Matthew W. Norman. "James H. Burton and the Confederate States Armory at Macon", The Georgia Historical Quarterly, Winter 1997, Vol. 81 Issue 4, pp 974–987
Titus Brown. "A New England Missionary and African-American Education in Macon: Raymond G. Von Tobel at the Ballard Normal School, 1908–1935", The Georgia Historical Quarterly, Summer 1998, Vol. 82 Issue 2, pp 283–304
Robert S. Davis. Cotton, Fire, & Dreams: The Robert Findlay Iron Works and Heavy Industry in Macon, Georgia, 1839–1912 (Macon, Ga., 1998)
Richard W. Iobst (2009) [1999]. Civil War Macon: The History of a Confederate City. Mercer University Press. ISBN 978-0-88146-172-5.
Jeanne Herring (2000). Macon, Georgia. Black America. Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia.

Published in 21st century

Tracy Maurer (2001). Macon Celebrates the Millennium. Montgomery, Ala.: Community Communications. ISBN 1581920342.
Andrew Michael Manis (2004). Macon Black and White: An Unutterable Separation in the American Century. Mercer University Press. ISBN 978-0-86554-958-6.
Paul T. Hellmann (2006). "Georgia: Macon". Historical Gazetteer of the United States. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 1-135-94859-3.
Robert Scott Davis. "A Cotton Kingdom Retooled for War: The Macon Arsenal and the Confederate Ordnance Establishment", The Georgia Historical Quarterly, Fall 2007, Vol. 91 Issue 3, pp 266–291
Candace Dyer, Street Singers, Soul Shakers, Rebels with a Cause: Music from Macon (Macon, Ga.: Indigo Publishing Group, 2008).
Mara L. Keire. For Business and Pleasure: Red-Light Districts and the Regulation of Vice in the United States, 1890–1933 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010); 248 pages; History and popular culture of districts in Macon, Ga., and other cities
Macon. Images of America. Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia. 2013. ISBN 9781467111157.

External links

"Macon", New Georgia Encyclopedia, Georgia Humanities Council
"Genealogical & Historical Room". Macon: Middle Georgia Regional Library.
Items related to Macon, various dates (via Digital Public Library of America)
"Subject Guides: Macon". Middle Georgia State University Libraries.

[FOOTNOTECandlerEvans1906-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Candler & Evans 1906.

[2] 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.

[LOC-3] "US Newspaper Directory". Chronicling America. Washington DC: Library of Congress. Retrieved March 5, 2017.

[Markers-4] "(Bibb County: Macon)". Explore Georgia's Historical Markers. Georgia Historical Society. May 22, 2014. Retrieved March 5, 2017.

[FOOTNOTEHellmann2006-5] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Hellmann 2006.

[FOOTNOTEFederal_Writers'_Project1940-6] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j Federal Writers' Project 1940.

[Gross1990-7] Ernie Gross (1990). This Day in American History. Neal-Schuman. ISBN 978-1-55570-046-1.

[FOOTNOTEWaring1887-8] Waring 1887.

[Moments-9] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h "Historic Moments in Macon". City of Macon. Archived from the original on April 7, 2001. (Timeline)

[10] "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.

[ColoredConventions-11] "Conventions by Year". Colored Conventions. University of Delaware, Library. Archived from the original on October 14, 2016. Retrieved March 4, 2017.

[davies-12] Davies Project. "American Libraries before 1876". Princeton University. Retrieved March 4, 2017.

[riverside_history-13] "History of Riverside Cemetery". Riverside Cemetery. Retrieved April 27, 2017.

[Today-14] "Today in Georgia History". Georgia Historical Society; Georgia Public Broadcasting. Retrieved March 5, 2017.

[15] "Library History". Middle Georgia Regional Library. Retrieved March 5, 2017.

[16] "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

[17] American Art Annual, vol. 17, NY: American Federation of Arts, 1920

[cinema-18] "Movie Theaters in Macon, GA". Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved March 5, 2017.

[Alicoate1939-19] Jack Alicoate, ed. (1939), "Standard Broadcasting Stations of the United States: Georgia", Radio Annual, New York: Radio Daily, OCLC 2459636

[Goldring-20] "Macon, Georgia". Encyclopedia of Southern Jewish Communities. Jackson, Mississippi: Goldring / Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life. Retrieved March 5, 2017.

[21] "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.

[Alicoate1960-22] Alicoate, Charles A., ed. (1960), "Television Stations: Georgia", Radio Annual and Television Year Book, New York: Radio Daily Corp., OCLC 10512206

[23] McKay, John J. Jr. (1979). "Story of the Middle Georgia Historical Society, Inc". Georgia Historical Quarterly. 63 (1): 156–160. JSTOR 40580094.

[Mikula1999-24] Mikula, M. F.; et al., eds. (1999). Great American Court Cases. Gale.

[25] "Middle Georgia Archives". Macon. Archived from the original on March 6, 2017. Retrieved March 5, 2017.

[26] "Georgia". Official Congressional Directory. 1991/1992- : S. Pub. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office. 1983. hdl:2027/uc1.31158007157232 – via HathiTrust.

[GovTrack-27] "Members of Congress". GovTrack. Washington DC. Retrieved March 5, 2017.

[28] "City of Macon, Georgia". Archived from the original on April 4, 2001 – via Internet Archive, Wayback Machine.

[29] "About". Historic Macon Foundation. Retrieved March 5, 2017.

[quickfacts2010-30] "Macon-Bibb County, Georgia". State & County QuickFacts. U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved March 4, 2017.

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+====
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+{{|Macon, Georgia#Bibliography}}
+{{Refbegin}}
+;Published in 19th century
+* {{cite book
+|title= Southern Business Directory
+|editor=John P. Campbell
+|location=Charleston, SC
+|publisher=Press of Walker & James
+|year=1854
+|chapter=Georgia: Bibb County
+|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_IRDAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA213
+}}
+* {{Citation
+|publisher = S. Boykin
+|author= [[Adiel Sherwood]]
+|publication-date = 1860
+|edition=4th |publication-place = Macon
+|title = Gazetteer of Georgia
+|chapter= Bibb County: Macon
+|chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/gazetteerofgeorg00sher#page/30/mode/2up
+| ref = {{harvid|Sherwood|1860}}
+}}
+* {{cite book|title=Historical Record of Macon and Central Georgia |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=XHYVAAAAYAAJ|year=1879 |publisher=J. W. Burke & Company |author=John C. Butler }}
+* {{citation
+|title=Report on the Social Statistics of Cities: Southern and the Western States
+|author1=[[George E. Waring, Jr.]]
+|author2= U.S. Department of the Interior, [[Census Office]]
+|location=Washington DC
+|publisher=Government Printing Office
+|year=1887
+|chapter= Georgia: Macon
+|chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=xb9NAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA169
+|pages= 169–172
+| ref = {{harvid|Waring|1887}}
+}}
+* {{Citation
+|publisher = Rand, McNally & Co.
+|publication-date = 1899
+|publication-place = Chicago
+|title = Rand, McNally & Co.'s Handy Guide to the Southeastern States |chapter-url=http://www.archive.org/stream/randmcnallycosha07chic#page/122/mode/2up
+|chapter= Macon
+|via=Internet Archive
+}}
+;Published in 20th century
+* {{cite book |editor1= [[Allen D. Candler]] |editor2= [[Clement A. Evans]] |title= Georgia: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons Arranged in Cyclopedic Form |publisher=State Historical Association |location=Atlanta |year= 1906
+|chapter=Macon |volume=2 |pages=511+
+|chapter-url= https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015027784332?urlappend=%3Bseq=503
+| ref = {{harvid|Candler|1906}}
+}}
+* {{Citation
+| title = [[Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition|Encyclopaedia Britannica]]
+| publication-place = New York
+| publication-date = 1910
+| edition=11th
+| oclc = 14782424
+| chapter = Macon
+| chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=ZyYqAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA267
+| ref = {{harvid|Britannica|1910}}
+}}
+* {{Citation
+|publisher = University of Georgia Press
+|publication-place = Athens
+|author = [[Federal Writers' Project]]
+|title = Georgia: a Guide to Its Towns and Countryside
+|publication-date = 1940
+|series= [[American Guide Series]]
+|chapter= Macon
+|chapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/georgiaaguidetoi008333mbp#page/n137/mode/2up
+|page=102+
+| ref = {{harvid|Federal Writers' Project|1940}}
+}}
+* Ida Young, Julius Gholson, and Clara Nell Hargrove. History of Macon, Georgia (Macon, Ga.: Lyon, Marshall & Brooks, 1950).
+* John A. Eisterhold. "Commercial, Financial, and Industrial Macon, Georgia, During the 1840s", ''The Georgia Historical Quarterly,'' Winter 1969, Vol. 53 Issue 4, pp 424–441
+* James H. Stone. "Economic Conditions in Macon, Georgia in the 1830s", ''The Georgia Historical Quarterly,'' Summer 1970, Vol. 54 Issue 2, pp 209–225
+* Bowling C. Yates. "Macon, Georgia, Inland Trading Center 1826–1836", ''The Georgia Historical Quarterly,'' Fall 1971, Vol. 55 Issue 3, pp 365–377
+*  McInvale, Morton Ray "Macon, Georgia: The War Years, 1861–1865" (Ph.D. dissertation, Florida State University, 1973)
+* Roger K. Hux. "The Ku Klux Klan in Macon 1919–1925", ''The Georgia Historical Quarterly,'' Summer 1978, Vol. 62 Issue 2, pp 155–168
+* Nancy Anderson, Macon: A Pictorial History (Virginia Beach, Va.: Donning, 1979).
+* Donnie D. Bellamy. "Macon, Georgia, 1823–1860: A Study in Urban Slavery", ''Phylon'' 45 (December 1984): 300–304, 308–309
+* Kristina Simms. Macon, Georgia's Central City: An Illustrated History (Chatsworth, Calif.: Windsor, 1989).
+* Titus Brown. "Origins of African American Education in Macon, Georgia 1865–1866",  ''Journal of South Georgia History,'' Oct 1996, Vol. 11, pp 43–59
+* Macon: An Architectural Historical Guide (Macon, Ga.: Middle Georgia Historical Society, 1996).
+* Macon's Black Heritage: The Untold Story (Macon, Ga.: Tubman African American Museum, 1997).
+* Matthew W. Norman. "James H. Burton and the Confederate States Armory at Macon", ''The Georgia Historical Quarterly,'' Winter 1997, Vol. 81 Issue 4, pp 974–987
+* Titus Brown. "A New England Missionary and African-American Education in Macon: Raymond G. Von Tobel at the Ballard Normal School, 1908–1935", ''The Georgia Historical Quarterly,'' Summer 1998, Vol. 82 Issue 2, pp 283–304
+* Robert S. Davis. ''Cotton, Fire, & Dreams: The Robert Findlay Iron Works and Heavy Industry in Macon, Georgia, 1839–1912'' (Macon, Ga., 1998)
+* {{cite book|author=Richard W. Iobst|title=Civil War Macon: The History of a Confederate City|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y_uAV2-_PEAC|year= 2009 |orig-year=1999 |publisher=Mercer University Press|isbn=978-0-88146-172-5}}
+* {{cite book |title=Macon, Georgia |author=Jeanne Herring |publisher=Arcadia |location=Charleston, South Carolina |series=Black America |isbn= |year= 2000
+}}
+;Published in 21st century
+* {{cite book |author=Tracy Maurer|title= Macon Celebrates the Millennium |location=Montgomery, Ala. |publisher= Community Communications |isbn=1581920342 |year= 2001 }}
+* {{cite book|author= [[Andrew Manis|Andrew Michael Manis]] |title=Macon Black and White: An Unutterable Separation in the American Century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7j-wXvGvNvcC|year=2004|publisher=Mercer University Press|isbn=978-0-86554-958-6}}
+* {{cite book
+|author=Paul T. Hellmann
+|title=Historical Gazetteer of the United States
+|year= 2006
+|publisher=Taylor & Francis
+|isbn=1-135-94859-3
+|chapter= Georgia: Macon
+|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=REtEXQNWq6MC
+|pages=
+| ref = {{harvid|Hellmann|2006}}
+}}
+* Robert Scott Davis. "A Cotton Kingdom Retooled for War: The Macon Arsenal and the Confederate Ordnance Establishment", ''The Georgia Historical Quarterly,'' Fall 2007, Vol. 91 Issue 3, pp 266–291
+* Candace Dyer, Street Singers, Soul Shakers, Rebels with a Cause: Music from Macon (Macon, Ga.: Indigo Publishing Group, 2008).
+* Mara L. Keire. ''For Business and Pleasure: Red-Light Districts and the Regulation of Vice in the United States, 1890–1933''  (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010); 248 pages; History and popular culture of districts in Macon, Ga., and other cities
+* {{cite book |series=Images of America |title= Macon |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hZAbAgAAQBAJ |location= Charleston, S.C. |publisher= Arcadia |isbn= 9781467111157|year= 2013
+}}
+{{refend}}
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