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Interesting red links related to Macon, Georgia[edit]

Juanita Black - social activist, her husband was the first state trooper killed in line of duty^[1]

Peter James Bracken - engineer of the The Texas (locomotive). Sources: blog post grave

William Arthur Fickling Sr., local businessman who inspired the International Cherry Blossom Festival^[2]

Jean League Newton, architect and daughter of Ellamae Ellis League

Parks Lee Hay, Sr., businessman who lived in the Johnston–Felton–Hay House

E.D. Huguenin, cotton broker and a pecan farmer, namesake of Huguenin Heights neighborhood

Charles L. Bowden, mayor of Macon, Georgia from 1938 to 1947 and the namesake of the Charles L. Bowden Golf Course

Martha Fannin Johnston, socialite who donated the land for the Girl Scout's Camp Martha Johnston^[1]

Charles Reb Massenburg, owner of Acme Brewing & later superintendent of Macon Hospital^[1]

Martha Bibb Hardaway Redding, one of the three co-founders of Phi Mu

Rosa Taylor, educator in Bibb County Public School District for over 50 years, namesake of Rosa Taylor Elementary School

Baconsfield Park is a former Macon park lost to a racist codicil in a will by Augustus Octavius Bacon. It's a fascinating story that might make a good article and relates to a landmark Supreme Court Case entitled Evans v. Newton of 1966. [1] [2]

Woolfolk murders was the largest mass murder in Georgia history, an entire family murdered on August 6, 1887. This "most infamous" crime has a New Georgia Encyclopedia article. Victims are buried in Rose Hill. Add'l sources: more details at UGA and a WMAZ news story from Feb 2018 The New York Times ran this story on the front page: "Nine Persons Murdered - A Young Man Charged with Killing His Father and Family". New York Times. Vol. XXXVI, no. 11211. August 7, 1887. p. 1. Retrieved October 29, 2018. (Krelnik has a capture of the 4 paragraph story for those without access).

Curran R. Ellis - architect, a distant relative of Ellamae Ellis League who also worked in Macon. Aside from inbound links from 2 NRHP buildings, also a few demolished buildings in Valdosta here and here. Macon Telegraph definitely has his ads, articles mentioning him search: [3]

For some Women-in-Red type work, a great source of redlinks to work on is Georgia Women of Achievement

There is a List of mayors of Macon, Georgia that has lots of red links

Also see the List of NRHP properties for Bibb County, those articles are easy to stub out and then enhance using library resources to add color and detail that's not in the dry NRHP documents.

WikiProject Georgia maintains a List of New Georgia Encyclopedia articles linking them to their wiki articles. This is a good source of redlinks that you know you're going to have at least one good source to work from at the NGE.

Georgia Aviation Hall of Fame was just created this month, lots of redlinks here and if you visit the Museum of Aviation after there may be photo opportunities related to these people, as the Hall of Fame is based there.

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b ^c Walden, Katherine (October 27, 2016). "A colorful past and cultural present in Macon". Macon Telegraph. Archived from the original on October 28, 2016. Retrieved April 27, 2017.
^ "History of Riverside Cemetery". Riverside Cemetery. Retrieved April 27, 2017.

[telegraph-1] Walden, Katherine (October 27, 2016). "A colorful past and cultural present in Macon". Macon Telegraph. Archived from the original on October 28, 2016. Retrieved April 27, 2017.

[history-2] "History of Riverside Cemetery". Riverside Cemetery. Retrieved April 27, 2017.

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