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MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – The Historic Macon Foundation is looking for nominees for this year’s Preservation Awards.
The foundation honors community members and organizations that work to preserve and restore the Macon area every spring. Executive Director Ethiel Garlington says that
preservation and restoration are the heart of Historic Macon’s mission.
Nominations for all Preservation Awards categories are open through Sunday, February 28th.
Photo: 2019 Preservation, Rehabilitation, or Restoration (Residential) winner. Photo courtesy of Historic Macon Foundation.
For a full list of categories and their description or to nominate someone, visit the foundation online at
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.