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Georgia Natural Wonder #66 - Macon (Part 3) - Rose Hill Cemetery - Macon

We covered the rapids of the Ocmulgee River as our main Natural Wonder on the Fall Line of Georgia. We dedicated a whole post on the Bond Swamp, Brown Mount, and Ocmulgee National Monument. We finished the history of Macon up till the end of the Civil War as so much of the city is preserved and the City is greatly identified from that architecture and preservation. Today, we try to wrap up this wonderful city with tangents on Rose Hill Cemetery, the Rich Musical History, and the Notable People.

Rose Hill Cemetery

Rose Hill, designed by Macon City Councilman Simri Rose in 1839, remains an outstanding example of 19th century picturesque landscape design, and is one of the oldest surviving public cemetery/parks in the U.S. Many rare and exotic specimens were planted here with native species, including oriental cypress, balm of Gilead, Norway and silver firs, hemlock, arbor vitae, cedar, juniper, wild olive, broom, furze and thorn grown alongside poplar, oak, beech and sycamore.

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Confederate Square is the final resting place of approximately 600 Confederate and Union soldiers, some from the Battle of Griswoldville, others reinterred from various plots around hospitals located in Macon.

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Three Confederate generals are buried in Rose Hill: Philip Cook, Alfred Colquitt, and Edward Dorr Tracy. Tracy, a Macon native and lawyer, was killed leading his 1,500 men into battle at Port Gibson, Mississippi on May 1, 1863.

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Cook fought in the Eastern Theater and was wounded at Chancellorsville and Petersburg. He was captured in a hospital in Richmond on April 3, 1865. After the war, Cook was appointed Secretary of State for Georgia by Gov. John B. Gordon, and he served in this capacity until his death in Atlanta on May 21, 1894. Cook County is named for him.

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Colquitt was the son of a Georgia senator and secessionist. He graduated from Princeton College and settled in Monroe, Georgia, as a lawyer, planter and states' rights politician. He was a staff officer during the Mexican War. Colquitt led the Confederate army's 6th Georgia in the Peninsular Campaign, was promoted to brigadier general in September 1862, and led Colquitt's brigade at Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, The Wilderness, Spotsylvania and Petersburg. He and his command surrendered at Greensboro N.C. on April 26, 1865. His greatest victory was at Olustee, in February 1864, where he stopped the Union incursion into Florida. He served as Georgia's governor from 1876-82 and U.S. senator from 1882-94, when he died.

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In adjacent Riverside Cemetery are the remains of a Confederate battery. Rose Hill was the scene of the first Confederate Memorial Day celebration in Macon, on April 26, 1866.

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The cemetery is part of a self-guided walking tour of Macon and is the site of the bi-annual Rose Hill Ramble sponsored by the Middle Georgia Historical Society. It was designed by Simri Rose. Rose was instrumental in the planning of The City of Macon and planned Rose Hill Cemetery, in return for being able to choose his own burial plot.

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The cemetery was a hangout and artistic inspiration for the Allman Brothers Band during their early years.

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Duane Allman and Berry Oakley.

The Allman Brothers' slide guitarist Duane Allman, keyboardist and vocalist Gregg Allman and bassist Berry Oakley are interred here, side by side.

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Gregg Allman right there now.

OK, I got carried away with the folks buried in here…….

Augustus Octavius Bacon President pro tempore of the United States Senate.

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Charles Lafayette Bartlett, 9 time congressman.

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Bartlett

John Birch was killed in a confrontation with Chinese Communist soldiers a few days after the Second World War ended. The John Birch Society, an American anti-communist organization, was named in his honor.

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James Henderson Blount was a US congressman for 20 years

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Blount

Peter Bracken, engineer of the The Texas locomotive

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Rugenia Tucker Fitzgerald Founder Alpha Delta Pi

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Leroy Wiley Gresham left behind one of the most remarkable and important Civil War diaries ever published.

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Thomas Hardeman Jr. politician, lawyer and soldier.

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Mecole Hardeman’s great great grand daddy.

Nathaniel Edwin Harris 61st Governor of Georgia.

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Harris

James Jackson United States Representative from Georgia, a judge advocate in the American Civil War, and a chief justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia.

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Jackson

Henry Graybill Lamar United States Congressman.

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Lamar and wife

John Basil Lamar US Congessman.

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Buck Melton Mayor of Macon 1970’s.

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Elizabeth Reed Napier Elizabeth Reed the person has no connection to the Allman Brothers Band. Dickey Betts simply saw her name on a grave site in Rose Hill cemetery, liked it and used it as the name of a song he had already written.

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Uncle John reminds me Little Martha was another Allman Brothers song linked to Rose Hill. The only Allman Brothers Band track written solely by Duane Allman. The song's namesake was Martha Ellis, a twelve-year-old girl whose grave they most likely came across during their frequent trips to Rose Hill Cemetery.

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Eugenius Aristides Nisbet was an US Congressman, jurist, and lawyer. He signed the Ordinance of Secession

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Joseph Neel Reid also referred to as J. Neel Reid or Neel Reid, was a prominent architect in Atlanta, Georgia in the early 20th century for his firm Hentz, Reid and Adler. His career was short-lived when he died of brain cancer at the age of 41.

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George Washington Bonaparte Towns was a U.S. Representative, and the 39th Governor of Georgia from 1847 to 1851. Towns County, Georgia is named in his honor.

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Blanton C. Winship  During his career, he served both as Judge Advocate General of the United States Army and as the governor of Puerto Rico.

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19th Century

Reconstruction saw blacks in new roles as aldermen, legislators, postmaster, and congressman, but that revolution was, to use W. E. B. Du Bois's phrase, "a splendid failure" and did not last. Having won their freedom, the former slaves soon found themselves newly tied to the land by sharecropping and tenancy systems; that, coupled with agriculture's continued dependence on cotton, kept regional per capita income low until the boll weevil brought it even lower after World War I (1917-18). Like the rest of the South, Macon did not have the capital to develop its resources.

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Still, the city managed to acquire the trappings of modern urban life: an expanded water system, sanitary sewers, telephones, electricity, streetcars, paved sidewalks, and over many years, paved streets. The Board of Public Education was established, Central City Park was developed, a city hospital opened in a former school, and a public library was organized. New citizens emigrated from outlying areas and other southern states, and the city increased its size by annexing Vineville, Hugenin Heights, Cherokee Heights, and East and South Macon. The Bibb Manufacturing Company, organized in 1876, dominated the local economy with multiple textile plants and mill villages, but the newly bred "Elberta" peach and refrigerated railroad cars brought the peach industry to life, and the organization of new banks and railroads enhanced business activity.

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Early 1900's

Later History

In the twentieth century, Macon grew into a prospering town in Middle Georgia. It began to serve as a transportation hub for the entire state. In 1895, the New York Times dubbed Macon "The Central City," in reference to the city's emergence as a hub for railroad transportation and textile factories. 

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Terminal Station was built in 1916 and is located on 5th St. at the end of Cherry St.

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It was designed by architect Alfred Fellheimer, prominent for his design of Grand Central Terminal in New York City in 1903.

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Macon's active volunteer militias had joined the battle every time the United States took up arms, even (despite lingering animosities from the recent fight with the Union) the Spanish-American War (1898) and raid into Mexico to capture Pancho Villa. Soldiers had trained at camps in Macon; thus it was natural, when America's entry into World War I became obvious, for Macon Chamber of Commerce leaders to aggressively seek military training facilities. Their efforts succeeded in bringing tens of thousands of "Doughboys" and a significant monthly payroll to Camp Wheeler, just east of Macon at Holly Bluff in 1917, and the community's hospitable embrace of the soldiers paved the way for the camp's reactivation in World War II (1941-45). (The Ocmulgee East Industrial Park and Macon's Downtown Airport are now located on its site.)

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But World War II brought additional installations: a naval ordnance plant, a training center for British Royal Air Force pilots at Cochran Field, and most important, with the help of Congressman Carl Vinson, the enormous Robins Air Force Base for which Maconites purchased 3,108 acres in adjacent Houston County to give to the U.S. Department of Defense.The long-term impact of these facilities, especially Robins, cannot be overestimated. They led to industrial and demographic changes that, in conjunction with social and technological changes, altered local culture in ways that continue to reverberate.

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If Macon had ever been, as it was once described, "more interested in the graces and pleasures of reciprocal hospitality than in commercial enterprises," the phrase was no longer apt. The postwar boom saw northern firms establish so many new plants (to capitalize on such local resources as pulpwood, kaolin, and tobacco) that industrial employment soared from 6,500 in 1940 to 16,000 in 1949. Additionally, cotton's grip on agriculture loosened as farmers began raising poultry, peanuts, and soybeans, and farms became larger as mechanization and migration to jobs in cities eroded the destructive tenancy system.

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With non-southerners and blacks moving into the city, and growing numbers of whites moving into adjacent counties, Macon's social homogeneity gave way to greater diversity, a process that was significantly accelerated by the civil rights movement. In accord with the value customarily placed on cordial human relations, the city managed to end de jure segregation without bloodshed or property damage, an achievement in which leaders of both races continue to take pride. The burgeoning contemporary music scene may have helped to facilitate these changes; white youths broke racial barriers by attending City Auditorium concerts by homegrown black artists Little Richard, Otis Redding, and James Brown in the 1960s. Such cultural crossover laid the groundwork for the Macon–Bibb County Convention and Visitors Bureau's current promotion of the region as the "Song and Soul of the South."

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Otis my man down by the river.

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Macon is the birthplace or hometown of musician Emmett Miller.

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Macon is home to Randy Crawford, Mark Heard, Lucille Hegamin, Mike Mills, and Bill Berry of R.E.M., as well as more recent artists like violinist Robert McDuffie and country artist Jason Aldean.

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Crawford

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Heard

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REM

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McDuffie

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Aldean

September Hase, an alternative rock band, was discovered in Macon.

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September Hase performing in August 2008 at the Cox Capital Theatre in Macon, Georgia

Capricorn Records, run by Macon natives Phil Walden and briefly Alan Walden, made the city a hub for Southern rock music in the late 1960s and 1970s. Captain Beyond recorded in Macon.

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Composer Ben Johnston was also born in Macon.

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Johnston

But the main event musically for Macon revolves around The Allman Brothers Band. The graves, the sites of the Motorcycle crashes, the little restaurant downtown where they ate.  I did a 4 post deep dive on the Brothers with my Nightly Nugget series. I could tangent all day just in tribute to Uncle John again. The Allman Brothers Museum - the "Big House" used by the Allman Brothers Band in the early 1970s, now a museum of Allman Brothers history and artifacts

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Front porch Bell House. 1st album.

Macon Today

Just as Macon leaders had pushed for railroads in the nineteenth century, they sought good highway connections in the twentieth: the juncture of Interstates 75 and 16 in the 1960s, the Fall Line Freeway in the 1990s.

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The end of the twentieth century saw Macon's economic focus shift from agriculture and industry to retail and service, with health care, financial and insurance employment, and tourism becoming increasingly important. A regional mall opened in West Macon in 1975, reorienting retail activity from downtown to the Eisenhower Parkway; Colonial Mall Macon has since expanded to become one of Georgia's largest malls, enclosing thirty acres. The Medical Center of Central Georgia, founded in 1895, is one of four Level One trauma centers in the state and is ranked one of the 100 top-performing hospitals in the country. Nearly 10,000 people work in white-collar jobs at insurance and financial firms.

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The annual Cherry Blossom Festival draws throngs during March, when more than 200,000 trees are in bloom, and the Ocmulgee Mounds, now part of the Ocmulgee National Monument, which was established in the 1930s to preserve and interpret the mounds, has been joined by more than a dozen museums and historic houses in offering year-round programs for visitors. A host of performing arts activities gives Maconites opportunities to enjoy dance, theater, and musical performances (including its own symphony) in a variety of venues. The professional sports teams, the Macon Whoopee (minor league hockey) and the Macon Knights (arena football), as well as numerous parks, round out leisure options. And in a swing back to the city's roots, the revitalization of downtown led by an energetic civic effort has opened access to the Ocmulgee River via a park and greenway.

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Religion

It has been said that Macon has more churches per capita than any other city in the South; clearly, religious life has been an important part of the community from its earliest years, exerting both spiritual and political influence.

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The Episcopalians were the first denomination to organize (1825), joined shortly by Baptists, Methodists, and Presbyterians (1826), which entities continue in existence as Christ Church (Episcopal), First Baptist on High Street, Mulberry Methodist, and First Presbyterian.

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Other faiths followed: Catholics in the 1830s, Jews in the 1840s, the Christian denomination in the 1880s, Christian Scientists in the 1890s, and by the turn of the century, Adventists, Theosophists, Free Methodists, Pentecostals, Lutherans, Nazarenes, and Free Will and Primitive Baptists.

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In the late twentieth century came Evangelicals, Church of God, Holiness, Jehovah's Witnesses, Unitarians, Mormons, Muslims, and Baha'i. African Americans worshiped in their masters' churches during slavery but broke into separate congregations after the Civil War and now represent numerous denominations, many of which are independent. Of the more than 250 congregations in Macon, by far the greatest number has been Baptist, with Methodist a distant second, but increasing numbers are non- or interdenominational.

Education

People who seek their fortunes in frontier towns may have a particular interest in improving the next generation; for whatever reason Macon embarked on a substantial number of educational ventures that have left significant marks on the city. One of the earliest was the desire to establish a college "to burst the shackles of ignorance and superstition which had bound woman for three thousand years." A group of citizens pledged $9,000 to purchase five acres on a "commanding eminence" halfway between downtown and Vineville and offered it to the Methodist Conference, which obtained a legislative charter in 1836.

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Thus did Wesleyan College become the first college in the United States chartered to grant degrees to women. The liberal arts school moved to a 200-acre campus in the town of Rivoli, six miles northwest of the original site, in 1928; its conservatory of music, a program close to the community's heart, remained on Macon's College Street until early 1953.

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After the Civil War, the city competed with other Georgia towns to convince Mercer University, a Baptist school founded as Mercer Institute in 1833, to move from Penfield to Macon, offering six acres west of Tattnall Square Park and $125,000 in municipal bonds. The bid was accepted, and classes began in Macon in 1871. Mercer University is the second largest Baptist-affiliated institution in the world, with a campus in Atlanta in addition to the one in Macon, and the only university of its size to offer programs in liberal arts, business, education, engineering, law, medicine, nursing, pharmacy, and theology. The medical and engineering schools have had a particular impact on the local economy, supplying doctors to rural Georgia while reinforcing Macon's role as a regional medical center and providing engineers for the "Aerospace Alley" industries drawn by Robins Air Force Base.

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Museums

Macon has a variety of historical attractions, whose current offerings and hours of operation or visitation are best accessed through links at the city or convention bureau Web sites.  Ocmulgee National Monument, site of a number of mysterious mounds on the east side of the river, traces 10,000 years of Native American occupation of the Macon Plateau. The Museum of Arts and Sciences presents daily planetarium shows, live animals, a hands-on "Discovery House," and exhibitions in art, science, and the humanities.

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The Tubman African American Museum is devoted to interpreting African American art, culture, and history.

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The Georgia Sports Hall of Fame offers interactive exhibitions illustrating the history of sport in the state and honoring exceptional Georgia athletes.

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Thirty minutes south of Macon the Museum of Aviation at Robins Air Force Base features more than ninety aircraft and exhibitions that span a century of flight.

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Performing Arts

Macon has two active community theaters. Macon Little Theater, founded in the 1930s, and Theatre Macon, established in the 1980s, offer full seasons of theatrical productions, as well as youth companies. The Macon Symphony also presents a full season and sponsors numerous outreach activities. A number of other venues offer additional cultural programming: the late-nineteenth-century Grand Opera House, restored in the 1970s, seats more than 1,000;

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The 400-seat Douglass Theatre, established by African American entrepreneur Charles Douglass in the 1920s and restored in the 1990s, has 70mm film capability;

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The Macon Centreplex, consisting of the 9,252-seat Macon Coliseum, the 2,688-seat City Auditorium (with reportedly the largest copper dome in the world), and the Edgar H. Wilson Convention Center, is the state's largest convention complex outside of metropolitan Atlanta.

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Current Business and Industry

The Macon Telegraph is Macon's oldest business, having been in continuous publication since 1826. Owner Peyton Anderson sold it, with the now-defunct afternoon News, to Knight Ridder in 1969.

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Another major employer in Macon is GEICO, a direct service insurance company, which placed one of its six regional sales' claims and services offices in the Ocmulgee East Industrial Park in 1974; a recent expansion has brought the number employed to more than 3,000.

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The other major firm in the same industrial park is the YKK Corporation of America, whose national zipper-manufacturing center (the world's largest) produces some 7 million zippers a day in a facility employing more than 1,000 people.

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Yoshida Kōgyō Kabushiki

Coliseum Health System, consisting of the Coliseum Medical Centers in East Macon near the Macon Coliseum, Macon Northside Hospital between Forsyth and Forest Hill roads, and the venerable Middle Georgia Hospital on Pine Street downtown, employs a total of 1,723.

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Uncle John (An often collaborator and mentor) has two addendums to the original post. The first being the store robbed in the My Cousin Vinny. One can still visit the Sack O Suds in nearby Monticello, Georgia.

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The second being the Natural Beauty of Charlane Plantation. This is the home of Allman Brothers keyboardist and Legacy Landowners Chuck Leavell and his wife, Rose Lane, They have a history surrounding their land and really this whole Natural Wonders of Georgia series is just a recruiting tool to instill Love for our State. To give us small adventures locally to energize us on our journey through life. And this last paragraph of the story on Leavell explains so well our love for Nature and History.  Thank you Uncle John for your insight in bringing these tangents to our attention.

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Chuck & Rose.

Chuck finds the rewards of stewardship to be many. “As someone who considers himself an environmentalist, to see the improvements one makes on a piece of land over an expanse of time is the most satisfying thing I can think of. It was Ralph Waldo Emerson who said, ‘In the woods we return to reason and faith.’ And I think that’s so true. There’s a calming effect that allows you to sort through whatever might be happening in your life that you need a moment to reflect and do some problem solving. There’s no better place to do that than in the woods when you’re relaxed and you can walk through and you feel the spirit of nature.”

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Dang It - I had this post redone till I delved into other Notable People. Jeez, this looks like another whole post. Look for an addendum, linking these with images down the road.

Actors

Luke Askew, actor, Walker, Texas Ranger

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Quarter this.

Blake Clark, actor, several Adam Sandler films and Boy Meets World

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Charles Coburn, Academy Award-winning actor, films including The More the Merrier and The Devil and Miss Jones

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Melvyn Douglas, Oscar-winning actor, Hud, Being There, Ninotchka

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Sam Edwards, actor, Little House on the Prairie

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Sam Hennings, actor, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

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Felix Knight, actor and tenor, Babes in Toyland

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Michelle Marshall, actress, The Love Guru

Jack McBrayer, actor, Wreck-it Ralph

Carrie Preston, actress, True Blood, The Good Wife

Shavar Ross, actor

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Lisa Sheridan, actress

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Cassie Yates, actress

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Grey Henson, actor, Mean Girls (musical)

Music

Claudine Clark, R&B musician and composer

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Buddy Greene, singer, songwriter, guitar player and harmonica player; gospel music

Ronnie Hammond, lead singer, Atlanta Rhythm Section

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Randy Howard, outlaw country singer

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Jerry Jemmott, soul bassist

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Johnny Jenkins, blues guitarist

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Rosa King, jazz and blues saxophonist, singer

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The Pickens Sisters, singing trio

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Howard Tate, soul singer and songwriter

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Get It While You Can

Eddie Tigner, blues pianist and singer

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Phil Walden, record producer and music businessman

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Young Jeezy, rapper

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Torres, musician

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Politics and government

William Shepherd Benson, admiral in the United States Navy; first Chief of Naval Operations (CNO), holding the post throughout World War I

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William Craft, Abolitionist leader

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John C. Daniels, Mayor of New Haven, Connecticut and Connecticut State Senator

Eugene Ely, first naval aviator, crashed and died in Macon in 1911, in an exhibition.  Ely jumped clear of the wrecked aircraft, but his neck was broken, and he died a few minutes later.

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First man to ever take off from an Air Craft carrier.

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Nate Holden, former California State Senator

Perry Keith, former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives; born near Macon in 1847

David Perdue, United States Senator

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P. B. S. Pinchback, Republican Governor of Louisiana for 35 days from 1872–1873

Arnold L. Punaro, Major General, United States Marine Corps

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Christopher N. Smith, Honorary Consul of the Kingdom of Denmark

Ronnie Thompson, Republican candidate for Governor of Georgia in 1974, gospel and country singer

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George D. Webster, Brigadier general of the United States Marine Corps

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Sports

Dave Bristol, MLB manager of Cincinnati Reds, Milwaukee Brewers, Atlanta Braves, and San Francisco Giants

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He milked Atlanta a few years

Durant Brooks, NFL player for Philadelphia Eagles

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Kevin Brown, MLB pitcher

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Bobby Bryant, football player

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Mallory Burdette, tennis player

Sugar Cain, baseball player

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Larry Emery, football player

Ron Fairly, Major League Baseball player and broadcaster

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Gerald Fitch, NBA player

George Foster, NFL player Cleveland Browns

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Tony Gilbert, NFL player for Atlanta Falcons

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Russell Henley, golfer on PGA Tour

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Richard Howard, U.S. bobsled athlete; silver medalist America's Cup; attended Southwest High School

Kareem Jackson, BCS champion with Alabama Crimson Tide, now cornerback for the NFL's Houston Texans

Roger Jackson, football player

Marquette King, NFL punter for the Denver Broncos

Al Lucas, football player in NFL and Arena Football League

Jeff Malone, NBA player

Marc Mero, pro wrestler

Cole Miller, UFC fighter and reality television star; raised in Macon and attended Mount de Sales Academy

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Chip Minton, member of 1994 and 1998 U.S. Olympic bobsled teams

Norm Nixon, NBA player

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Blue Moon Odom, MLB pitcher, won three World Series with Oakland Athletics, born in Macon

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Jim Parker, NFL Hall of Famer for Baltimore Colts; born in Macon

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Jerry Pate, pro golfer

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Myles Patrick, basketball player

Antonio Pettigrew, sprinter, 1991 world champion in 400 meters; disqualified 2000 Sydney Olympics gold medalist

Kevin Reimer, MLB player for Texas Rangers and Milwaukee Brewers

John Rocker, MLB pitcher

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Theron Sapp, University of Georgia and NFL football player

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Ken Shamrock, UFC champion and former professional wrestler

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Elmore Smith, NBA player

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Smith dunks on Wilt

Le Kevin Smith, NFL player for New England Patriots and Denver Broncos; attended Stratford Academy

Vernon "Catfish" Smith, football player

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J. T. Thomas, football player

Charles Tidwell, NASCAR pioneer

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Sharone Wright, basketball player

Other

Mathuren Arthur Andrieu, painter

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Catherine Brewer Benson, first woman to earn a bachelor's degree from Wesleyan

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Sonny Carter, astronaut and professional soccer player

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Randolph Royall Claiborne, Jr., bishop

Rodney M. Davis, Medal of Honor recipient, Vietnam War (buried outside the city due to his race)

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Two monuments this fellow in Macon.

On September 6, 1967, he was operating with his unit in the Quảng Nam Province on a search and clear mission during Operation Swift, when they were attacked by a large North Vietnamese force. Elements of the platoon were pinned down in a trench line by mortars, heavy automatic and small arms fire. He went from man to man encouraging them on and also returning fire at the same time. An enemy hand grenade fell in the trenches his men were fighting from and without hesitation he threw himself upon the grenade.

Lee Everett, video game's main character in The Walking Dead

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Nancy Grace, television personality

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James Augustine Healy, first African-American Roman Catholic bishop in United States

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Michael A. Healy, captain in United States Revenue Cutter Service

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Patrick Francis Healy, 29th President of Georgetown University

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Marcus Lamb, founder of international Christian TV network called Daystar Television Network

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Lucy Craft Laney, African-American educator who in 1883 founded the first school for black children in Augusta, Georgia

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Ellamae Ellis League, architect, first woman FAIA from Georgia

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John LeConte, president of University of California

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Joseph LeConte, geologist

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James Creel "Jim" Marshall, mayor and U.S. Congressman

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Earl W. McDaniel (1926–1997), physicist

Rhett McLaughlin, YouTuber with Link Neal for the channels Rhett and Link and Good Mythical Morning

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Rhett in yellow

Lydia Meredith, author

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Adam Ragusea, Mercer University professor and food YouTuber

Gwyn Hyman Rubio, author

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William Sanders Scarborough, scholar

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Laurence Stallings, playwright

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Leila Ross Wilburn, one of the first women architects in Georgia

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Rufus Youngblood, deputy director of the US Secret Service; bodyguard of Lyndon B. Johnson at the time of the assassination of John F. Kennedy; born in Macon

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Holy Cow, that was a deep dive on Macon and the Ocmulgee River. Wonderful part of state. One last fall Line Wonder tomorrow. We did Antebellum GNW gal yesterday, we present Allman Brothers Roadie GNW Gals today.

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