Macon developed at the site of Fort Benjamin Hawkins, built in 1809 at the fall line of the Ocmulgee River to protect the community and to establish a trading post with Native Americans. The areas along the rivers in the Southeast had been inhabited by indigenous peoples for 13,000 years before Europeans arrived. The Mississippian culture constructed earthwork mounds for ceremonial, burial, and religious purposes. Their predecessors, the Mississippian culture, built a powerful chiefdom (950–1100 AD) based on the practice of agriculture.
Macon was founded on the site of the Ocmulgee Old Fields, where the Creek Indians lived in the 18th century. The area is served by Middle Georgia Regional Airport and Herbert Smart Downtown Airport. The city has several institutions of higher education, as well as numerous museums and tourism sites. Macon is served by three interstate highways: I-16 (connecting the city to Savannah and coastal Georgia), I-75 (connecting the city with Atlanta to the north and Valdosta to the south), and I-475 (a city bypass highway). The two governments officially merged on January 1, 2014.
In a 2012 referendum, voters approved the consolidation of the governments of the City of Macon and Bibb County, and Macon became Georgia's fourth-largest city (just after Augusta). Macon is also the largest city in the Macon–Warner Robins Combined Statistical Area (CSA), a larger trading area with an estimated 420,693 residents in 2017 the CSA abuts the Atlanta metropolitan area just to the north. It is the principal city of the Macon Metropolitan Statistical Area, which had a population of 233,802 in 2020. Located near the fall line of the Ocmulgee River, Macon had a 2020 population of 157,346. Macon lies near the state's geographic center, about 85 miles (137 km) southeast of Atlanta-hence the city's nickname, "The Heart of Georgia".
Macon ( / ˈ m eɪ k ən/ MAY-kən), officially Macon–Bibb County, is a consolidated city-county in the U.S.
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