Editing Macon, Mississippi (section)

==History==
In 1817, [[Jackson's Military Road]] was built at the urging of [[Andrew Jackson]] to provide a direct connection between [[Nashville, Tennessee|Nashville]] and [[New Orleans]]. The road crossed the [[Noxubee River]] just west of Macon, located at the old [[Choctaw]] village of Taladega, now the site of the local golf club. The road declined in importance in the 1840s, largely due to the difficulty of travel in the swamps surrounding the Noxubee River in and west of Macon.

The route for the most part was replaced by the [[Robinson Road (Mississippi)|Robinson Road]], which ran through [[Agency, Mississippi|Agency]] and [[Louisville, Mississippi|Louisville]] before joining the [[Natchez Trace]], bypassing Macon.<ref>Love, William A., "General Jackson's Military Road," ''Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society Vol. XI'' (1910), pp. 403–17; accessed November 11, 2014.</ref>

On September 15, 1830, US government officials met with an audience of 6,000 Choctaw men, women and children at [[Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek|Dancing Rabbit Creek]] to explain the policy of [[Indian removal|removal]] through interpreters. The Choctaws faced migration west of the Mississippi River or submitting to U.S. and state law as citizens.<ref name=remini_submit_expected>
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 | publisher = History Book Club
 | chapter   = "Brothers, Listen ... You Must Submit"
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The treaty would sign away the remaining traditional homeland to the United States; however, a provision in the treaty made removal more acceptable.<ref name=len_green>
{{cite web|url=http://www.tc.umn.edu/~mboucher/mikebouchweb/choctaw/chotreat.htm|title=Choctaw Treaties|access-date=March 21, 2008|last=Green|first=Len|date=October 1978|publisher=Bishinik|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071215033006/http://www.tc.umn.edu/~mboucher/mikebouchweb/choctaw/chotreat.htm|archive-date=December 15, 2007}}</ref>

The town was named Macon on August 10, 1835, in honor of [[Nathaniel Macon]], a statesman from North Carolina.<ref>{{cite web|title=Formation of Noxubee County: Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek|url=http://noxubeealliance.com/quality-of-life-noxubee-mississipp/history-noxubee-county|access-date=December 18, 2017}}</ref>

The city served as the capital for the state of Mississippi during the [[American Civil War|Civil War]] from 1863 onward.<ref>{{cite web|title=Mississippi|url=https://www.civilwar.org/visit/heritage-sites/old-capitol-museum-mississippi-history|access-date=December 18, 2017}}</ref>

The legislature was housed in the Calhoun Institute, which also housed Governor Charles Clark's office and served as one of several hospital sites in Macon.<ref>{{cite web|title=History of City of Macon & Noxubee County|url=http://www.cityofmacon.org/html/historiccity.html|access-date=December 22, 2017}}</ref>

In October 1865, Governor [[Benjamin G. Humphreys|Benjamin Humphreys]] attempted to retrieve the furniture from the governor's mansion to Jackson, however it had been either destroyed or stolen.<ref name="MDAH governors mansion">{{cite web|last1=Lohrenz|first1=Mary|title=Governor's Mansion during the Civil War|url=http://www.mdah.ms.gov/senseofplace/2010/11/17/governors-mansion-during-the-civil-war|publisher=Mississippi Department of Archives and History|access-date=December 22, 2017|date=November 17, 2010}}</ref>

On June 27, 1919, in an incident described as part of the [[Red Summer]], a mob of white citizens including a banker and a deputy sheriff, among many others, [[Macon, Mississippi, race riot|attacked prominent black citizens]].<ref name="Dadabo">{{cite book|last1=Dadabo|first1=Elizabeth|title=Historical Moments of Policing, Violence, and Resistance Series Volume 6 Chicago's Red Summer of 1919}}</ref> On May 20, 1927, [[Lynching of Dan Anderson|Dan Anderson]] was lynched in Macon.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://politicsny.com/2020/02/24/the-jim-crow-era-a-solemn-roll-call-of-those-brutally-murdered/ |accessdate=April 20, 2021 |title=The Jim Crow Era: A Solemn Roll Call Of Those Brutally Murdered |website=PoliticsNY|date=February 24, 2020 }}</ref>