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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM233O_fencing-from-findlay-foundry_Macon-GA.html
This fencing was manufactured c. 1856 at the Findlay Foundry and once enclosed the Robert Findlay estate. The Findlay Foundry was operated by the Confederate States Ordnance Bureau as the Macon Arsenal from 1862 -1865.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Y5R_cowles-bond-house_Macon-GA.html
This impressive home was already more than a quarter century old when Union Major General James Harrison Wilson occupied it in 1865. It is a masterpiece of one of Macon's most notable early master-builders, Alexander Elam who designed this house f…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Y54_macon-defensive-fortifications_Macon-GA.html
Military earthworks, also variously called redoubts, lunettes, entrenchments and breastworks, have been used for centuries as points of lookout and defense. Early in the Civil War, soldiers learned to dig a simple trench behind an earthen parapet …
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Before you are the known graves of almost 1,000 people who died enslaved. Despite the enormous number of people who died in slavery in the United States, the burial sites of only a small number of the enslaved are known. Oak Ridge Cemetery is sign…
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After the Civil War, the three distinct sections present in Oak Ridge today began to form. In addition to the antebellum and Civil War burials of enslaved people, a portion of Oak Ridge was sold to William Wolff in 1879 as a burial ground for Temp…
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Macon native Simri Rose, for whom Rose Hill Cemetery is named, established these grounds in 1840. Rose set aside ten acres of the property for slave owners to purchase and bury enslaved people and to bury city-owned enslaved people. On September 1…
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Oak Ridge Cemetery, also a part of Rose Hill Cemetery, was set aside for Negro slave burials of many prominent Macon families. Many affluent descendants of slaves such as doctors, teachers, and businessmen are also buried here.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1VLX_rose-hill-cemetery-historical_Macon-GA.html
Rose Hill Cemetery opened in May of 1840, twenty one years before the first casualties of the Civil War. Seven Macon soldiers were killed in the battle at Pensacola, Fl., in the first year of the war 1861. Four were brought to Macon and buried in …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1VLK_civil-war-era-maconites-of-african-ancestry-historical_Macon-GA.html
In 1860 the population of Bibb County was 16,289. The 6,790 slaves and free persons of color were the backbone of "King Cotton." There were at least three slave depots (markets) on Poplar Street. Many slaves and freedman worked as skille…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1VJA_macon-city-hall-historical_Macon-GA.html
The building that houses Macon's City Hall was constructed in 1837 as headquarters for the Monroe Railroad and Banking Company. In 1845, the Greek Revival temple-style building was converted into Macon's first "fire-proof" cotton warehou…