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From: Charlene Cotton <>
Subject: [GABIBB] Fort Hill Street, Macon
Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2000 21:23:38 -0700

Posted on: Bibb Co. Ga Queries
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Main Street, an extension of Fifth Street, runs thru the heart of old East
Macon, and was once part of US 80, terminating in Jeffersonville Road at
the Ocmulgee Indian Mounds. Fort Hill Street runs due north from Main to
Ga. Hiway 49, Shurling Drive. Emery Hiway, Ga. 87, crosses Fort Hill Street
at the site of the reconstructed Fort Hill, the high point of the terrain
overlooking Ocmulgee River to the southwest and Walnut Creek to the east.
The Fort Hill School of the 1930s - 1970s was on the same block with the
Fort, between Fort Hill Street and Maynard Street.

Bibb Manufacturing Company was located on "Main Street" before construction
of the Macon Coliseum in the 1960s. Several blocks of mill village houses
were razed in "Urban Renewal" to make space for the Coliseum, between Spring
Street, Emery Hiway and Main Street. A portion of Main Street was renamed
Coliseum Boulevard, and routed to connect with Emery Hiway. Bibb Manufacturing
no longer operates a cotton mill on that site.

The Cannon Ball House is on the opposite side of the river, located at
856 Mulberry Street between First and Spring.

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