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Table of Contents

4 Macon’s Bicentennial 30 Macon Area Map
WELCOME
6 Macon’s Music History 32 Eat & Drinks
12 Outdoors & Attractions 45 Arts & Wares of Macon
22 Seasonal Events 50 Accommodations
29 Downtown Macon Map 58 Meetings

Welcome to Macon!

Discover why we are “Where Soul Lives.”

h, Macon. Established in 1823, its history Visit the Allman Brothers Band Museum
actually stretches back farther than our at the Big House, the Otis Redding Museum
A collective memories: and the stages of The Douglass Theatre,
• to Ziggy, the 40-million-year-old whale The Grand Opera House and the Capitol
fossil at the Museum of Arts & Sciences; Theatre to learn how Macon has nurtured
some of the best Blues, Southern Rock, Soul
• to the Mississippian people who lived here and Country music. Visit during Bragg Jam
more than 17,000 years ago and who built Music Festival or GABBAfest and you’ll hear
the mounds at Ocmulgee Mounds National the music lives on.
Historic Park; Visit the “Festival Capital of Georgia”
• to the architects of such grand edifices as to savor soul food and have fun. Come for
Hay House and St. Joseph Catholic Church the 10-day International Cherry Blossom
over the past 200 years; Festival that marks each spring with more
• to Otis Redding, Little Richard and the than 300,000 Yoshino cherry trees in bloom.
founders of Capricorn Records who put Enjoy African-American art, history and
their stamps on rock-n-roll and soul music culture at the Tubman Museum or visit the
in the past 70+ years. Georgia Sports Hall of Fame to see more than
3,000 sports artifacts, documenting the
Bike the Ocmulgee Heritage Trail, career of the state’s most legendary athletes.
float on the Ocmulgee River, waterski at Go to VisitMacon.org for suggested
Lake Tobosofkee, hike, fish and picnic at itineraries. Call or visit the Downtown Visitor
Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park. Center to schedule a riding group tour.
#wheresoullives; #visitmacon

Visitor Downtown Macon
Information 450 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Macon, GA 31201
Center 478.743.1074

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