It all started with Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park, a site that has been inhabited by indigenous groups for 17,000 years. The Mississippian people built elaborate mounds around 900 CE that still stand today and have become a source of sightseeing.
These mounds also happen to be minutes from downtown Macon.
There is an effort to make Ocmulgee into a national park, a first for the state. (Georgia has a number of National Park Service-recognized monuments, historic sites and battlefields, but no official national parks.) That caused the Macon-Bibb Urban Development Authority, a group of county-appointed experts, to turn its eye toward developing an existing entrance to the park that lies in the Fort Hawkins neighborhood.
Bibb deputies looking for east Macon dollar store robber
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MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Bibb County deputies are looking for a man witnesses say robbed a dollar store Wednesday night.
It happened at Dollar General at 4471 Jeffersonville Road just after 5:30.
Witnesses told deputies a man entered the store, pulled out a gun and demanded money before receiving cash and running away.
No one was injured.
The man was wearing a camouflage jacket and pants with a Batman beanie cap. His face was covered with a mask.
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