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city and the See also:county-seat of Bibb county, See also:Georgia, U.S.A., in the central See also:part of the See also:state, on both sides of the Ocmulgee See also:river (at the See also:head of See also:navigation), about 90 m. S.S.E. of See also:Atlanta. Pop. (1900), 23,272, of whom 11,550 were negroes; (1910 See also:census) 40,665. Macon is, next to Atlanta, the most important railway centre in the state, being served by the See also:Southern, the Central of Georgia, the Georgia, the Georgia Southern & See also:Florida, the Macon See also:Dublin & See also:Savannah, and the Macon & See also:Birmingham See also:railways. It was formerly an important river See also:port, especially for the shipment of See also:cotton, but lost this commercial See also:advantage when railway See also:bridges made the river impassable. It is, however, partially regaining the river See also:trade in consequence of the compulsory substitution of drawbridges for the stationary See also:rail-way bridges. The city is the seat of the Wesleyan See also:female See also:college (1836), which claims to be the first college in the See also:world chartered to See also:grant See also:academic degrees to See also:women; See also:Mercer University (Baptist), which was established in 1833 as Mercer See also:Institute at Penfield, became a university in 1837, was removed to Macon in 1871, and controls See also:Hearn See also:Academy (1839) at See also:Cave See also:Spring and See also:Gibson Mercer Academy (1903) at Bowman; the state academy for the See also:blind (1852), St See also:Stanislaus' College (Jesuit), and Mt de Sales Academy (See also:Roman See also:Catholic) for women. There are four See also:orphan asylums for whites and two for negroes, supported chiefly by the See also:Protestant Episcopal and Methodist Churches, and a public See also:hospital. Immediately See also:east of Macon are two large See also:Indian mounds, and there is a third See also:mound 9 m. See also:south of the city. Situated in the See also:heart of the " Cotton See also:Belt," Macon has a large and lucrative trade; it is one of the most important inland cotton markets of the See also:United States, its See also:annual receipts averaging about 250,000 See also:bales. The city's factory products in 1905 were valued at $7,297,347 (33'8% more than in 'goo).

In the vicinity are large beds of See also:

kaolin, 30 M. wide, reaching nearly across the state, and frequently 35 to 70 ft. in See also:depth. Macon is near the See also:fruit-growing region of Georgia, and large quantities of peaches and of See also:garden products are annually shipped from the city. Macon (named in See also:honour of Nathaniel Macon) was surveyed in 1823 by See also:order of the Georgia legislature for the county-seat of Bibb county, and received its first See also:charter in 1824. It soon became the centre of trade for See also:Middle Georgia; in 1833 a See also:steam-See also:boat See also:line to See also:Darien was opened, and in the following See also:year 69,000 bales of cotton were shipped by this route. During the See also:Civil See also:War the city was a centre for Confederate See also:commissary supplies and the seat of a See also:Treasury depository. In See also:July 1864 See also:General See also:George See also:Stoneman (1822–1894) with 500 men was captured near the city by the Confederate general, See also:Howell See also:Cobb. Macon was finally occupied by Federal troops under General See also:James H. See also:Wilson (b. 1837) on the loth of See also:April 1865. In 1900–1910 the See also:area of the city was increased by the See also:annexation of several suburbs.

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