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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 Listen to the content of this post: 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. Follow Tucker Sargent on Facebook and Twitter. (478) 745-4141 ext. 310 ....