MACON, a town of the United States of North America, capital of Bibb, county Georgia, on both sides of the Ocmulgee, here crossed by a bridge 380 feet in length, 30
miles S.W. of Milledgeville. Being situate at the head of the river navigation, Macon has been steadily increasing in importance. In 1822 it was little more than a village, but now has become the third town in Georgia, both as regards commercial importance and population. Its chief public buildings are,—a court-house, market-house, and a Wesleyan female college founded 1839. Cotton is the staple trade, and is shipped here for the sea-coast in large quantities. In the vicinity there is a much-admired cemetery and a curious mound, supposed by some to be artificial. Pop. (1850) 5953, (1853) about 7000.