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The Telegraph9mon
Macon will celebrate tribe that inhabited cherished Ocmulgee Mounds. Here’s how to attend
The annual Ocmulgee Indigenous Celebration is returning to Ocmulgee Mounds ... Indian Removal Act, passed in 1830, enabled the U.S. government to forcibly remove the Muscogee (Creek) from Georgia.
National Geographic news8mon
Everything you need to know about Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park
Inhabited by indigenous people for 12,000 years, the Ocmulgee National Historical Park (in Macon, Ga.) is home to the ... of the United States until the Indian Removal Act of 1830.
Yahoo9mon
Ocmulgee Indigenous Celebration brings native culture, hope for national park to Macon
But in 1830, President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act into ... 14, 2024, at Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park in Macon, Georgia. Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park ...
Chattanooga Times Free Press1y
Congressional OK for an Ocmulgee Mounds national park could be in store in 2024
Georgia is well on ... Warnock visited the site in Macon last month and reaffirmed his commitment to seeing legislation through for establishing the mounds as a national park.
The Florida Times-Union2y
An old park in the middle of Georgia worthy of becoming new national park | Mark Woods
America could very well have a new national park, about 270 miles from Jacksonville, in Macon, Georgia. If you’ve only driven the interstate past what could become Ocmulgee Mounds National Park ...
Atlanta Journal-Constitution2mon
Georgia lawmakers reintroduce bill to make Macon's Ocmulgee Mounds a national park
WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of Georgia lawmakers is renewing ... on a plan to increase the Ocmulgee Mounds footprint to include a 50-mile stretch from Macon to Hawkinsville, saying the ...
AOL1y
Will Macon be home to GA’s first national park? This bipartisan bill would make it happen
The effort to make Macon ... Georgia’s first National Park, the politicians’ offices announced Wednesday. The group of lawmakers introduced the bipartisan, bicameral Ocmulgee Mounds Park ...
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Ocmulgee Mounds national park effort moves ahead in Congress
hunted and built temple and funeral mounds that feature prominently at the site. The 1830 Indian Removal Act forced tens of thousands of indigenous people from their homes in Georgia and across ...
Sports Illustrated7mon
Georgia's First National Park to be Named Ocmulgee Mounds National Park
Georgia is one such state. Macon, Georgia is home to a historical park that contains over 17,000 years of historical artifacts. Ocmulgee Mounds is a beautiful grassy piece of land where a variety ...
Savannah Morning News11mon
Macon's Ocmulgee Mounds may become the first National Park and Preserve in Georgia
Stranger things in Georgia:Find our more about the tree that owns itself in Athens What are the Ocmulgee Mounds and their history? Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park is in Macon at 1207 ...
Macon-Bibb County seeks developers for new downtown hotel and convention center project
The county is now looking for statements of qualifications from developers to design, finance and construct the new hotel on ...