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38 unusual facts about Mâcon


1887 Detroit Wolverines season

On March 13, after training in Macon, Georgia‚ the Wolverines began a six-week exhibition tour through the South and Midwest.

Andreás Sovan

He won two medals at the 1954 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Mâcon with a silver in the K-1 4 x 500m and a bronze in the K-2 500 m events.

Antoine Griezmann

Griezmann was born in the commune of Mâcon in the département of Saône-et-Loire and began his career playing for hometown club UF Mâcon.

Automobiles Lambert

Lambert was a French automobile manufacturer established by Germain Lambert in 1926 at Mâcon.

Ballard-Hudson High School

Ballard-Hudson High School is a high school in Macon, Georgia.

Bengt Linfors

He won a silver medal in the K-2 500 m event at the 1954 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Mâcon.

Bert Nilsson

He won a gold medal in the K-1 4 x 500 m event at the 1954 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Mâcon.

David Jennens

Also in 1951, Jennens was the stroke of the British eight that won the European Rowing Championships in Mâcon, France.

Ervin Szörenyi

He won a silver medal in the K-1 4 x 500 m event at the 1954 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Mâcon.

Ferenc Csonka

He won two medals at the 1954 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Mâcon with a silver in the C-2 10000 m and a bronze in the C-2 1000 m events.

Gisela Amail

She won a bronze medal in the K-2 500 m event at the 1954 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Mâcon.

Gordon Parry, Baron Parry

His efforts reached around the world and today he is still fondly remembered in such far away locals as Macon, Georgia, USA, where he was highly important in the early years and ultimate success of the Macon International Cherry Blossom Festival.

Günter Krammer

He won a bronze medal in the K-2 1000 m event at the 1954 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Mâcon.

Hilda Pinter

She won a gold medal in the K-2 500 m event at the 1954 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Mâcon.

Jaroslav Poupa

He won a bronze medal in the C-1 1000 m event at the 1954 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Mâcon, France.

Jaroslav Sieger

He won a bronze medal in the C-2 10000 m event at the 1954 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Mâcon.

Jean-Claude Amiot

On returning to France in 1968, Amiot became director of the Mâcon branch of the Ecole Nationale de Musique, and, from 1983, director of the Conservatoire national de région of Clermont-Ferrand, a post held until his retirement in 2000.

József Halmay

He won a gold medal in the C-2 10000 m event at the 1954 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Mâcon.

Lord, Send Me an Angel

The White Stripes' cover version features a few changes to the original lyrics: Frontman Jack White's name replaces McTell's, and Detroit replaces Macon and Georgia as place names.

Mâcon Cathedral

Mâcon Cathedral (Cathédrale Saint-Vincent de Mâcon) is a Roman Catholic church and former cathedral in Mâcon, Burgundy, France.

The present church (Église cathédrale Saint-Vincent de Mâcon) was built between 1808 and 1818 under the supervision of the architect Alexandre de Gisors.

Macon, Mississippi

Nate Wayne, former NFL football player with Green Bay Packers, Denver Broncos, and Philadelphia Eagles.

Macon, Missouri

In that year, Charles E. Still and Harry M. Still, sons of A. T. Still, the founder of the profession of osteopathic medicine, along with Dr. Arthur G. Hildreth, established the Still-Hildreth Sanatorium, which was devoted to the treatment and care of all types of nervous and mental disorders.

Macon, North Carolina

Macon is the birthplace of writer and Professor at Duke University, Reynolds Price, and the setting of his 1986 novel, Kate Vaiden.

Ockham, Surrey

After reaching Liverpool in 1850, following an arduous journey starting with a flight to freedom from Macon, Georgia, African-American slaves William and Ellen Craft were given a home by a parishioner in Ockham in 1851.

Patrick Francis Healy

Patrick, as he was known, was born into slavery in Macon, Georgia, to the Irish-American plantation owner Michael Healy and his bi-racial slave Mary Eliza.

Placide Cappeau

According to Placide, he wrote the poem "Minuit Chrétien" (O Holy Night) in a stagecoach to Paris, between Mâcon and Dijon.

Ralph Tambs-Lyche

He was born in Macon, Georgia as a son of Norwegian father Hans Tambs Lyche (1859–1898) and American mother Mary Rebecca Godden (1856–1938).

Reginald II, Count of Burgundy

Reginald II, Count Palatine of Burgundy and Count of Mâcon, Vienne and Oltingen, was born in 1061; he was the eldest son of William I of Burgundy and brother to Stephen I of Burgundy, his successor, as well as to Pope Callixtus II.

Robert Enteric

He won a bronze medal in the K-4 1000 m event at the 1954 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships at Mâcon.

Rolf Fjellmann

He won two silver medals at the 1954 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Mâcon, earning them in the K-2 10000 m and K-4 10000 m events.

TBI plc

Additionally, TBI provides airport management services at Atlanta and Macon, Georgia and Burbank, California in the US.

Thaddeus von Clegg

The manufactured version we know today was invented in Macon, Georgia, by an African American named Alabama Vest, in the 1840s.

The Baby of Mâcon

She imprisons the Mother and begins to exploit the Baby by selling blessings to the desperate townspeople of Mâcon.

Tina Tyus-Shaw

She worked a series of radio and television jobs in Macon, Georgia; North Carolina; and Columbus, Georgia, before settling in Savannah in 1992.

Tove Nielsen

She won a silver medal in the K-1 500 m event at the 1954 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Mâcon.

Valeria Lieszkowszky

She won a silver medal in the K-2 500 m event at the 1954 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Mâcon.

Yannick Nomede

Yannick Nomede (born in September 20, 1983 Mâcon, France) is a French footballer who played 1 match in Ligue 1 for Troyes in the 2002=2003 season and played 1 match in Ligue 2 for Troyes in the 2004-2005 season.


Boys and Girls High School

A new building was planned on the east side of Nostrand Avenue between from Halsey and Macon Streets, designed by Superintendent of Buildings James W. Naughton, but by the time it opened in 1886, enrollment had increased to the point where it was decided to use this building as the girls' high school and to and build a separate building for the boys.

Carson and Lundin

Robert Carson (July 19, 1906-1960) was born in Macon, Illinois and received his architectural degree from the University of Pennsylvania before coming to New York City where he worked with Raymond Hood and was the senior architect of Rockefeller Center from 1939 until his partnership with Forsyth.

Fort Macon State Park

Named after U.S. Senator from the State of North Carolina, Nathaniel Macon, who procured the funds to build the facility, Fort Macon was designed by Brig. Gen. Simon Bernard and built by the US Army Corps of Engineers.

Frederick W. V. Blees

He was responsible for the construction of several of the town's commercial buildings and the town's first sewage system; founded the local horseless carriage factory, the first theater, and the First National Bank of Macon; and financed the paving of the town's streets on a 50-50 basis with the city.

Gare de Lyon-Jean Macé

The station allows passengers to regional trains from Bourgoin-Jallieu, La Tour-du-Pin, Saint-André-le-Gaz, Vienne, Valencia, Mâcon and Villefranche-sur-Saône, according to their final destination, to use the new station as additional entry point in the center of Lyon.

James H. Burton

Burton returned to Macon in October 1863, where he awaited delivery of several shipments of machinery from the firm Greenwood & Batley of Leeds, England.

Jeremy Maçon

Maçon was an unsuccessful senatorial candidate in the 2008 elections, however he was elected as a Deputy for St Saviour No. 1 district.

Macon County, Georgia

Macon County was a shooting place for the new 2013 movie, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.

Macon Speedway

Drivers including Gary Webb, Scott Bloomquist, Ken Schrader and Billy Moyer have won big-purse races hosted by the Macon Speedway.

Macon has been the home track of several National Champions over the years, most notably 1999 NASCAR Heartland Regional, NASCAR Winston Racing Series Champion, and NASCAR Winston Racing Series National Champion, Jeff Leka.

Former Macon Speedway owner Bob Sargent teamed up with NASCAR stars Ken Schrader, Kenny Wallace, and Tony Stewart as co-owners of Macon Speedway.

Nikos Kazantzakis

Religion in the Writings of Nikos Kazantzakis, Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 1996.

Reginald II

Reginald II, Count of Burgundy (1061–1097), Count Palatine of Burgundy and Count of Mâcon from 1087

Robert Joel

Robert Joel (August 4, 1944, Macon, Georgia – September 30, 1992, Riverside, California) was an American actor.

Roger Martin

Roger H. Martin (born 1943), 14th president of Randolph-Macon College

Sinclair Skinner

Skinner has worked for numerous engineering companies including Ohmeda, Inc., Honeywell, Pillsbury, McDonnell Douglas Corporation and The Architect of the Capitol where he performed testing and development for the space shuttle’s main engine controllers, manufacturing for a flour mill company and designed roadways in Macon County, Alabama where he was an apprentice to Curtis Pierce, the first African American county engineer in Macon County, Alabama.

WAYS

WDEN-FM 99.1, formerly WAYS (FM), a radio station in Macon, Georgia, United States

WCWB

WMGT-TV, a television station (channel 41 analog/40 digital) licensed to Macon, Georgia, United States, which used the call signs WCWB or WCWB-TV from 1968 to December 1983

WGXA

Owned by Frontier Radio Management, it has studios on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard (GA 11/GA 22/GA 49/U.S. 80/U.S. 129) in Downtown Macon.

WGXA-DT2

Known on-air as ABC 16 after WGXA's physical digital channel location, its parent station has studios on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard (GA 11/GA 22/GA 49/U.S. 80/U.S. 129) in Downtown Macon.

William Augustus Bootle

From 1925 to 1928, Bootle had a private practice in Macon; in 1928 he was appointed Assistant U.S. Attorney by President Calvin Coolidge, serving at this post for two years.

WNEX

Hayes was on the air when Macon's Southwest High School won a national championship in boy's basketball.