The Indian Removal Act, passed in 1830, enabled the U.S. government to forcibly remove the Muscogee (Creek) from Georgia. This happened to other tribes in the South, including the Cherokee ...

Explore Macon's Ocmulgee park named one of the world’s greatest places of 2025 by Time. A new bill is being filed Wednesday with every member of Georgia’s delegation signed on as either a ...

Ben Kirkland speaks to festival attendees during a demonstration at the 2024 Ocmulgee Indigenous Celebration on Saturday, Sept. 14, 2024, at Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park in Macon, Georgia.

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.

America could very well have a new national park, about 270 miles from Jacksonville, in Macon, Georgia. Yes, Macon. Ocmulgee Mounds could join America's iconic parks ...

Tracie Revis, a citizen of the Muscogee Creek Nation, poses at the Great Temple Mound in Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park in Macon, Ga., on Aug. 22, 2022.

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 of Native American cultures ...

Catch up quick: Over thousands of years, Native American cultures, most recently the Muscogee, formed villages, farmed, hunted and built temple and funeral mounds that feature prominently at the site.

The effort to make Macon home to Georgia’s first national park now has bipartisan support in Washington, D.C. U.S. Reps. Austin Scott (R) and Sanford Bishop (D), alongside Sens. Jon Ossoff (D ...

Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park is in Macon at 1207 Emery Hwy. According to the National Park Service , its history includes more than 12,000 years of continuous human habitation.

National Parks, a vital influence on the American culture have been around since 1872. And while many states in the U.S. benefit from the beauty and attractiveness of the attributes that make a ...