Mâcon

Mâcon
/mah kawonn"/, n.
1. a city in and the capital of Saône-et-Loire, in E central France. 40,490.
2. a Burgundy wine, usually white and dry, from the area around Mâcon.

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City (pop., 2000: 97,255), central Georgia, U.S. A fort was built near the site, and in 1806 a settlement grew up around it.

Macon was laid out across the river in 1823, and it annexed the settlement in 1829; the town was named for Nathaniel Macon. During the American Civil War, it was a Confederate supply depot. A distribution centre in an agricultural region, it is the site of several institutions of higher learning and Robins Air Force Base, as well as the birthplace of the poet Sidney Lanier (1842–81).
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(as used in expressions)
Macon Dave
David Harrison Macon
Macon Nathaniel

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      city, seat (1823) of Bibb county, central Georgia, U.S., on the Ocmulgee River at the fall line. Its incorporated area extends into Jones county to the northeast. The original settlement, Newtown, developed around Fort Hawkins (1806). In 1822 a town was laid out across the river and named for Senator Nathaniel Macon (Macon, Nathaniel), a North Carolina agrarian legislator; it annexed Newtown in 1829. The economy grew rapidly after the railroad reached the city in the early 1840s, and Macon became an important cotton-shipping point.

      During the American Civil War, Macon had a Confederate gold depository and munitions factories and was a supply depot until General Howell Cobb (Cobb, Howell) surrendered it to the Union cavalry commander General James H. Wilson on April 20, 1865. Economic recovery, slow during Reconstruction, was stimulated during World War I with increased industrial employment. Robins Air Force Base, 10 miles (16 km) south, became an important installation during World War II.

      Industry is well diversified and includes the manufacture of textiles, aircraft parts, paper products, and bricks and tiles. Macon has long been a processing and distributing centre for the surrounding farmland. Services are also important, notably government employment. It is the seat of Mercer University (1833), Wesleyan College (women's; 1836), Macon State College (1968), and the Georgia Academy for the Blind (1852). Cultural institutions include the Museum of Arts and Sciences and the Georgia Music Hall of Fame. The poet Sidney Lanier (Lanier, Sidney) (1842–81) was born there. Jarrell Plantation State Historic Site and Piedmont National Wildlife Refuge are a short distance to the north. Native American mounds are at nearby Ocmulgee National Monument. Inc. city, 1823. Pop. (1990) city, 106,612; Macon MSA, 290,909; (2000) city, 97,255; Macon MSA, 322,549.

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