In 1830, fearing a milk sickness outbreak along the Ohio River, the Lincoln family moved west, where they settled on public land in Macon County, Illinois, another free, non-slave state.

The 1974 film Macon County Line claims to be true, but it is in fact fiction.

A variety of pyrope from Macon County, North Carolina is a violet-red shade and has been called rhodolite, Greek for " rose ".

* Decatur, Illinois, county seat of Macon County, Illinois

During the late 1700s, the first European-American settler, John Covington Moore, settled here in what was then part of Macon County.

Clay County was formed primarily from Cherokee County, North Carolina, however a small area was taken from Macon County, North Carolina.

There are five counties adjacent to Clay County ; Macon County to the northeast ; Rabun County to the southeast ; Towns County, Georgia, to the south ; Union County, Georgia to the southwest ; Cherokee County, to the north.

* Macon County ( west )

* Macon County ( northeast )

* Hudson Township, Macon County, Missouri

* Franklin, Alabama, a community in Macon County, Alabama

* Bridal Veil Falls ( Macon County ), Highlands, North Carolina

* Macon County ( north )

* Macon County ( southeast )

Lee County was established by act of the Alabama state legislature on December 5, 1866, out of parts of Macon, Tallapoosa, Chambers, and Russell Counties.

* Macon County ( southwest )

* Notasulga ( part of Notasulga is in Macon County )

Macon County is a county in the U. S. state of Alabama.

He married Mary Day of Macon in 1867 and moved back to his hometown, where he began working in his father's law office.

Born in Palatka, Florida, Lloyd began his professional baseball career in 1905, playing catcher for the Acmes of Macon, Georgia.

The siege of Fort Macon began at that time.

In September 1977, during the recording sessions for London Town, English became homesick and returned to Macon, Georgia, where he began playing with Chuck Leavell's band Sea Level.

In 1975, he recorded several songs with Crawdad bandmates at Capricorn studios in Macon Georgia which were released in 1987 as One in the Sun ( when the present day Lynyrd Skynyrd band began touring ) by MCA Records and is listed as his only official solo album.

From 1928 the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Macon Kiwanis Club began fundraising to create a replica of one of the blockhouses to memorialize the fort.

She is a graduate of Florida State University and began her television career at WGXA, in Macon, GA.

The group, quickly named after the brothers Allman, began recording demos that April in Macon, Georgia, which became the group's spiritual home.

In 1979, Johnson began his broadcasting career at WMAZ-TV in Macon, Georgia.

Relocating to Macon where Brown befriended rising rock ' n ' roll musician Little Richard, the group began gaining attention from record executives associated with King Records, a label based out of Cincinnati.

In 1871, a group of five Sisters of Mercy from Columbus, Georgia began a small school known as the Academy of the Sacred Heart Jesus on the corner of Fourth and Walnut streets in Macon, Georgia.

There are still many roadways within Macon County that are gravel based and bridges are not present when arriving upon streams.

Ellen Craft ( 1826 – 1897 ) and William Craft ( September 25, 1824 – January 29, 1900 ) were slaves from Macon, Georgia in the United States who escaped to the North in December 1848 by traveling openly by train and steamboat, arriving in Philadelphia on Christmas Day.

Some of the bands regularly on the show during its early days included the Possum Hunters ( with Dr. Humphrey Bate ), the Fruit Jar Drinkers, the Crook Brothers, the Binkley Brothers ' Dixie Clodhoppers, Uncle Dave Macon, Sid Harkreader, Deford Bailey, Fiddlin ' Arthur Smith, and the Gully Jumpers.

* Nathaniel Macon ( 1758 – 1837 ), American politician in the early republic and namesake for many of the U. S. places

The 1935 Wilcox-Wilson bill provided for construction of new army air logistics depots, and in the early 1940s Macon civic leaders, led by Mayor Charles L. Bowden and supported by Congressman Carl Vinson, convinced the War Department to locate an airfield near Macon.

Gideon Hunt Macon was born in Virginia, but moved to North Carolina in the early 1740s.

In early April 1916, the commission approved the route between Macon and Jacksonville via Savannah, Georgia, and designated the more direct route via Waycross, Georgia as the central division.

Acuff and his band also joined Macon and other Opry acts at various tent shows held throughout the southeast in the early 1940s.

Like Father Divine, her early life is obscure, but she is believed to be from Macon, Georgia.

The Macon Telegraph warned Callaway that he " must rise early and work late " to overcome the " little Pickrick warrior ", a reference to Maddox's former Pickrick Restaurant in Atlanta.

After two early season victories at home, the Steeldogs fell at Macon in the first road contest of the year.

She, like Macon, has had to fend for herself from an early age after their father's murder, but she has dealt with her past in a different way than Macon, who has embraced money as the way to show his love for his father.

As a young boy, Mills moved with his family to Macon, Georgia and attended Northeast High School in the early 1970s.

Among these very early artists were Vernon Dalhart, who recorded the million-selling Wreck of the Old 97, Ernest Stoneman from Galax, Virginia, Henry Whitter, A. C. ( Eck ) Robertson, who recorded the first documented country record along with Henry C. Gilliland (" Sallie Gooden " b / w " Arkansaw Traveler "), and Uncle Dave Macon.

However, on October 10, 2008, the Macon Telegraph reported that an investor is " deeply interested " in relaunching the Knights franchise in Macon, as early as 2009, but no later than 2010.