Macon

Macon, capital of Bibb county, Georgia, on the Ocmulgee, stands among forest-clad hills, at the head of navigation, 103 miles SSE. of Atlanta, on six lines of railway. It is the seat of Mercer University (Baptist), a Roman Catholic college, a Wesleyan girls' school, and an academy for the blind; has several foundries, flour and lumber mills, cotton-factories, &c., and ships large quantities of cotton. Pop. (1880) 12,749; (1890) 22,746.