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Macon (City and county-seat of Bibb)

a city and county-seat of Bibb co., Ga., on the Ocmulgee river; and on the Central of Georgia, the Southern, Georgia Southern and Florida, the Macon, Dublin and Savannah, the Georgia, and the Macon and Birmingham railroads. It is connected by steamboat routes with Brunswick and Savannah; 88 miles S. of Atlanta. It is in the heart of the cotton belt, and is the manufacturing and jobbing center for southern Georgia and neighboring States, with a population of 1,000,000, and an annual trade of $100,000,000. It contains Mercer University, St. Stanislaus College, Wesleyan Female College, Mount de Sales Academy, Gresham High School, Ballard Normal School for Colored Pupils, and MACON MCREYNOLDS the Georgia Academy for the Blind. ven, Inverness-shire, Scotland, Oct. 27 There are electric light and street rail- 1736. After a study of ancient Gael road plants, waterworks, National and poetry he produced "Fingal, an Ancient State banks, daily and weekly newspapers, a hospital, public library, a United States Government Building, and interesting Indian mounds. It has large cotton and knitting mills, foundries, agricultural works, lumber and planing mills. Pop. (1910) 40,665; (1920) 52,995.