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This sounds like a neat tour and a great way to see Macon's industrial past..
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Stops include the birthplace of Crisco shortening, Coca-Cola Bottling Co. and Capricorn Studio now anchoring a major loft project on the site of the old Union Depot.
Alison Evans, who moved to Macon a few years ago as CEO of the Methodist Home, learned of Saturday’s free tours through Facebook.
The 30-minute trolley ride gave her a greater understanding of the city’s past and efforts to preserve that heritage.
“It was excellent. It was well done and it was free,” said Evans, who was particularly interested to find the Old City Cemetery she recently learned of and wondered “where in downtown is that?”
Decaying cherry trees circle the old burial site that was restored in the 1970s, but you have to turn off Seventh Street to see the old gates.
Along with patches of blight and preservation potential stand proof of a resurgence of activity that could lead to a renaissance for this district.
A new loft project has been approved behind Terminal Station and work has just begun on a new project at the old Bryan Transfer and Storage Co. built in 1925.
Historic Macon is now renovating new headquarters at 338 Poplar Street in a 1908 brick building, near the 1859 Schofield Iron Works that flourished in the birth of railroad and had clients from Japan and South America.
Although Macon’s old Acme Brewing and Bottling Co. died an early death in prohibition, Saturday’s tours began at the Macon Beer Co. that occupies an old 1949 warehouse on Oglethorpe Street next to the Historic Macon Flea Market.
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