Image: Darnell, Conie Mac. “Macon’s Ocmulgee Heritage.” Macon Sketchbook. Macon: Indigo Custom Publishing, 2003 (8-32).

Two excellent sources the author recommends for more information and acknowledges relying upon for general facts about Macon's history are Macon, Georgia's Central City, by Kristina Simms and History of Macon, The First One Hundred Years 1823-1923, Chronicles published by The Macon News and reprinted by the Peyton Anderson Foundation. See sources and notes to pages 1-18 below.

Ocmulgee Town, Before 1800

1. See Max E. White, The Archaeology and History of the Native Georgia Tribes (Gainesville, FL: Univ. Press of Florida, 2002).

2. Mark Van Doren, ed., Travels of William Bartram (Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, Inc. 1928), 68.

City in a Wilderness, 1800 to 1825

3. Kristina Simms, Macon, Georgia’s Central City, An Illustrated History (Chatsworth, CA: Windsor Publications, Inc., 1989), 15.

4. Ibid., page 18.

Queen Inland City of the South, 1825 to 1850

5. Frank Reagan and others, History of Macon, the First One Hundred Years, 1823-1923 (Macon, GA: J.W. Burke, Co. 1923; reprint, Macon, GA: Peyton Anderson Foundation), 42. A collection of articles of Macon’s history written for Macon’s centennial celebration in 1923.

6. Hugh Ruppersburg, ed., Georgia Voices, Volume Three, Poetry (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2000), 26.

7. See Jo McConnell and Sadie Crumbley, Macon’s Treasures Remembered: The Antebellum Years (Gloucester Point, VA: Hallmark Publishing Company, Inc., 2002).

War and Renewal, 1850 to 1875

8. Richard W. Iobst, Civil War Macon, The History of a Confederate City (Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1999), 5.

Georgia’s Central City, 1875 to 1900

9. Simms, Macon, Georgia’s Central City, 41.

10. Ruppersburg, Georgia Voices, 124.

City Beautiful, 1900 to 1925

11. Frank Reagan, History of Macon, 96.

12. Ibid, 98.

13. Ibid, 101.

Macon's Song and Soul, 1950 to Today

14.Kenneth Coleman, ed. A History of Georgia, 2nd ed. (Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press, 1991) 374.