Macon

by Matthew Jennings and Stephen Wallace Taylor

Book Overview

Macon has been a crossroads of cultures since Native Americans built the massive earthworks that now form the Ocmulgee National Monument.

In the 19th century, fortunes rose and fell with the price of cotton for small farmers and businessmen, as well as plantation owners. The Civil War destroyed the plantation economy, but it left Macon's historic treasures largely undisturbed. Though manufacturing replaced plantation slavery, cotton...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1467111155
• ISBN13: 9781467111157
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.5" x 9.1"