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Macon County Georgia History Macon
county was created in 1837 and was named for Hon. Nathaniel
Macon, of North Carolina, who served through the entire war of the
Revolution as a private, declining promotion, and afterward made an
enviable record as a legislator, both in the general assembly of his
state and the Congress of the nation. The county is located
southwest
of the center of the state and is bounded on the north by Taylor and
Crawford, on the east by Houston, on the southeast and south by Dooly,
Sumpter and Schley and on the west by Schley and Taylor. The
surface
is well watered by the Flint river and several of its tributaries and
the soil is above the average in fertility. The crops usual to
this
part of the state are raised without difficulty, though the leading
products of the farms are cotton, corn, sweet and Irish potatoes,
sugarcane and vegetables of various kinds. Macon is the second
largest
peach-growing county in the state. In one season 450 carloads
were
shipped from the town of Marshallville alone. A little long leaf
pine
timber is left and there are some hard-woods, the latter being used
chiefly for making fruit boxes and crates. Several canning and
packing
establishments do a good business and there are a number of flour mills
along the Flint river, where there is an abundance of
water-power.
Over 20,000 bales of cotton are annually shipped from the county.
Oglethorpe is the county seat, and Montezuma and Marshallville are
thriving towns. The Fort Valley & Americus division of the
Central
of Georgia railroad runs through the county from north to south and a
branch of the Atlantic & Birmingham runs southeast from Oglethorpe,
giving good transportation facilities. In 1900 the population was
14,093, an increase of 910 during the preceding decade. At that
time
there were three high schools and 52 public schools in operation.
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