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The Waddell Barnes Botanical Gardens are botanical gardens located on the campus of Middle Georgia State University, Macon, Georgia, spanning 167 acres (68 hectares). They are open daily without charge. The gardens were established in 1967 to designs of landscape architect Clay Adamson when the construction of Macon Junior College began.
The 400-acre (1.6 km 2) Macon Campus is the university's main campus, located in the western section of Bibb County at Interstate 475's interchange with U.S. Route 80 (Eisenhower Parkway). It was the original main campus of Macon State College. The campus has more than a dozen major buildings and a scenic lake.
Macon State College was a four-year state college unit of the University System of Georgia. On Jan. 8, 2013, it was merged with Middle Georgia College into a new institution, Middle Georgia State College, which was renamed on July 1, 2015 to Middle Georgia State University. Macon State College was formerly Macon College and Macon Junior College.
In 2013, Macon State consolidated with Middle Georgia College in Cochran, which has five residence halls. MGA now also has about 180 beds at Aviation Hall on its Eastman campus for aviation students.
Initially intended as a night school, Georgia State University was established in 1913 as the Georgia School of Technology's Evening School of Commerce. [23] A reorganization of the University System of Georgia in the 1930s led to the school becoming the Atlanta Extension Center of the University System of Georgia and allowed night students to earn degrees from several colleges in the ...
The Macon Historic District is a historic district in Macon, Georgia that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974 and was expanded in 1995. [2] The original listing covered 587 acres (238 ha) and included 1,050 contributing resources; the increase added 101 acres (41 ha) and 157 contributing resources (of which 10 acres and 10 contributing buildings were already listed ...
After the doors of Macon’s lone educational school supply store closed last year, two owners decided to take action.
Roughly bounded by Broadway, Eisenhower Pkwy., Felton and Nussbaum Aves., Central of Georgia RR tracks and Oglethorpe St 32°49′24″N 83°38′36″W / 32.823333°N 83.643333°W / 32.823333; -83.643333 ( Tindall Heights Historic