MACON , eighty miles southeast of Atlanta on I-75, where I-16 branches off to the coast, makes an attractive stop en route to Savannah, especially when its 200,000 cherry trees erupt with frothy blossoms (celebrated by a festival in the third week of March). As the highest navigable point on the Ocmulgee River , Macon was laid out in 1823 and became a major cotton port. Downtown is no longer the commercial center it once was, particularly following the arrival of the huge Macon Mall near the intersection of the two freeways, but there are signs, everywhere, of an imminent urban renaissance. Chief among these is the … more »
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Macon is located south of Atlanta on Interstate 75. For visitors the town... more »
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