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Macon City Hall & Old Capitol Historical Marker
- City Hall & Old Capitol State
Historical Marker
- Located at Macon City Hall on Cotton Avenue at First
Street in Macon, Ga.
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CITY HALL & OLD CAPITOL
The Macon City Hall, built in 1837
for the Monroe Railroad & Banking co and since remodeled,
served from Nov. 18, 1864 till March 11, 1865 as temporary Capitol
of Ga. Here Gov. Brown had his office and convened the last session
of the Ga. legislature under the Confederacy. Here the march
session of the Supreme Court was held in 1865. The building was
also used as a military hospital from the battle of Chickamauga
in 1863 until the close of the war. A picket on guard at the
portico was shot when Fed. Gen. Wilson entered the city on April
20, 1865.
011-2 GEORGIA HISTORICAL
COMMISSION 1954
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