the September 2013 election, which required a runoff with C. Jack Ellis in October. Timeline 1806 - U.S. Fort Hawkins built at the present-day site of Creek Indian Ocmulgee Old Fields (future site of Macon). 1821 - Fort Hawkins settlement renamed "Newtown." 1822 - Bibb County created. 1823 - Town of Macon incorporated; named after North Carolina statesman Nathaniel Macon. 1826 Macon Telegraph newspaper begins publication. First Presbyterian Church founded. 1829 - Newtown becomes part of Macon. 1833 - Steamboat in operation. 1834 - City of Macon incorporated. 1835 - Robert Augustus Beall elected mayor. 1836 - Monroe Railroad Bank built. 1838 - Monroe Railroad (Forsyth-Macon) begins operating. 1839 - Georgia Female College opens. 1840 Rose Hill Cemetery established. Population: 3,927. 1843 - The Central of Georgia Railway connects Savannah and Macon. 1846 - The Macon and Western Railroad connects Macon and Atlanta; the Small House (residence) built (approximate date). 1848 - Telegraph begins operating. 1851 - Georgia State Fair relocates to Macon. 1860 Belgian Fair and Cotton Planters' Exposition held. Population: 8,247. 1862 - "Arsenal of the Confederate Government moved to Macon" during the American Civil War. 1864 July 30: Macon besieged by Union forces. "City Hall made temporary State Capitol of Georgia." 1865 - April 20: Macon occupied by Union forces. 1866 - October 29: Equal Rights and Educational Association of Georgia meeting held in Macon. 1871 Mercer University relocates to Macon from Penfield. Bibb Manufacturing Company in business. 1874 - Public Library (social library) established. 1876 - Mount de Sales Academy active. 1880 Telephone begins operating. Population: 12,749. 1884 Macon Daily News begins publication. Academy of Music built. 1887 April 6: Riverside Cemetery chartered August 6: Woolfolk family murdered near Macon. 1900 - Price Library (public library) opens. 1906 - Ocmulgee River levee construction begins. 1910 - Population: 40,665. 1917 - Cox Capitol Theatre in business. 1918 National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Columbus branch organized (approximate date). Macon Art Association formed. Outbreak of Spanish flu. 1919 Washington Memorial Library (public library) established. Paul Jones was lynched on November 2, 1919, after being accused of attacking a fifty-year-old white woman. He was burned alive. 1921 - Douglass Theatre and Rialto Theatre in business. 1922 WMAZ radio begins broadcasting. Sherah Israel Synagogue built. 1925 - Macon City Auditorium built. 1929 - Luther Williams Field (stadium) opens. 1929 - Walker Business College, an African American business and