A bipartisan bill to make the Ocmulgee Mounds Georgia’s first and only national park and preserve was reintroduced Wednesday after an effort in 2024 didn’t ultimately make it through Congress. Democratic Sens. Jon Ossoff and Rev. Raphael Warnock, and Reps. Sanford Bishop (D, GA-02) and Austin Scott (R, GA-08) introduced the legislation.
A proposal to turn a prehistoric American Indian site in central Georgia into the state’s first national park advanced out a U.S. Senate committee Tuesday.
Mary Kathryn Nagle's play "On the Far End" tells the story of promises kept and promises broken at the end of the Trail of Tears through the life of one Muscogee woman.
A nonprofit organization dedicated to land conservation has acquired two parcels of land in Middle Georgia that will support efforts to establish the Ocmulgee Mounds as Georgia’s first national park.
This week the Ocmulgee Mounds Park and Preserve Establishment Act was introduced in both the US House and Senate. The legislation with wide bipartisan support is an important, long waited for step in creating the first ever National Park for the state of Georgia.
U.S. House bill would establish the Ocmulgee Mounds in Middle Georgia as a national park and preserve, upgrading the site from its current status as a national monument.
The Georgia city, located 84 miles southeast of Atlanta, has easy access to recreation, waterways and music history. But its National Historic Park is attracting global recognition and travel buffs.
Middle Georgians have waited for years for Macon’s Ocmulgee Mounds to officially become Georgia’s first national park and preserve. But despite bipartisan support in Congress, a new report means progress has been slowed once again.
On Feb. 3, 2017, the Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park Boundary Revision Act was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives, officially setting in motion a plan to expand and protect the Ocmulgee Mounds under federal law. But six years later, supporters of the initiative are wondering when Macon will get its long-awaited national park.
Many residents of middle Georgia had hoped for one big gift by the end of this holiday season: a new National Park. But fighting in Congress means more waiting for the Ocmulgee National Park and Preserve.
Hundreds of Native Americans returned to their historic capital in Macon, Georgia, this weekend for the 30th annual Ocmulgee Indigenous Celebration. Nearly 200 years after the last Creek Indians were forcibly removed to Oklahoma to make way for slave labor in the Deep South, citizens of the Muscogee Creek Nation are celebrating their survival. They're also supporting an initiative to put the National Park Service in charge of protecting the heart of the Creek Confederacy.
The Ocmuglee Mounds National Historical Park will soon receive a custom-built 13-foot cypress dugout canoe that will be on display in the park’s visitors center.
Tracie Revis’ roots run thousands of years deep at the Ocmulgee Mounds, where she's part of the effort to expand the footprint of the Ocmulgee Mounds National Historic Park into the first ever full-fledged national park in Georgia.
