Macon Guide

Macon sits in the dead center of Georgia and carries more music history per square foot than almost anywhere in the South. This is where the Allman Brothers Band lived and built their sound in the early ’70s — the Big House where they crashed is now a museum stuffed with their guitars and gear, and Duane Allman and Berry Oakley lie side by side in Rose Hill Cemetery, where the band wrote songs among the graves. Little Richard and Otis Redding are Macon men too. Add the largest Ocmulgee earthworks (see the reverence note below), a downtown of intact 19th-century architecture, and 350,000 cherry trees that turn the whole city pink every March, and Macon over-delivers for a town most people only know from the interstate sign.