Overview | Sights to See

Part sleepy southern town, part up-and-coming urban center. A strong appreciation for the past, but a vivid vision of the future. Blue skies and green trees and sunlit days and sizzling nights, and all of it cut straight through the heart by a lazy, rambling river. The brightest and best of Southern hospitality in all its many fine forms.

WHAT ABOUT MACON, GEORGIA?
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Mama Louise’s H and H Restaurant is still downtown, still serving up those sweet potato pies and smiles with a side of collard greens, just like always. The Big House is right there on Vineville, of course, full of its memories and its ghosts and its will to live on. Capricorn Records is still here, too—well, the building, at least, with it its own set of legends and lore. The Georgia Music Hall of Fame is pretty new, as Macon things go, but already it’s doing a fine job of keeping the history of all these places and people fresh in our minds and our hearts.

Stroll along the Ocmulgee Heritage Trail and take in the view of historic Rose Hill Cemetery overlooking the river, anchoring the city, guarding the cherished legacy of the Allman Brothers just as it’s guarded the generations of Macon folks who passed before them. Macon folks. That’s what we call our own. Duane and Gregg and Berry and all the others were Macon folks. So are Little Richard, and Otis Redding, too.

So here’s the question: could The Big House have come to exist in any other place on earth besides Macon, Georgia? Probably. Could the Allman Brothers have made their magic somewhere else? Possibly. Would any of it have been as real, as timeless, as exciting, as memorable, as it was here in Macon?