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| | Encyclopedia: Macon, Georgia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | It lies near the geographic center of Georgia, approximately 80 miles (129 km) south of Atlanta, hence the city's nickname as the Heart of Georgia. |
 | | Macon is, next to Atlanta, the most important railway centre in the state, being served by the Southern, the Central of Georgia, the Georgia, the Georgia Southern and Florida, the Macon Dublin and Savannah, and the Macon and Birmingham railways. |
 | | The Central of Georgia Railroad was then built through Oglethorpe in the 1850s, and the assembly called for a referendum on moving the seat in February of both 1854 and 1856. |
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