How an Artist Village in Georgia Involves Neighborhood Residents
It all started with Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park, a site that has been inhabited by indigenous groups for 17,000 years. The Mississippian people built elaborate mounds around 900 CE that still stand today and have become a source of sightseeing. These mounds also happen to be minutes from downtown Macon. There is an effort to make Ocmulgee into a national park, a first for the state. (Georgia has a number of National Park Service-recognized monuments, historic sites and battlefields, but no official national parks.) That caused the Macon-Bibb Urban Development Authority, a group o...
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