Editing Macon, Georgia (section)

==References in popular culture==
===''The Simpsons''===
In "[[Bart on the Road]]", the Season 7 episode of ''[[The Simpsons]]'', character [[Nelson Muntz]] suggests the boys take a road trip to Macon. Later he reminds the group that none of their trouble would have happened had they chosen Macon over [[Knoxville, Tennessee]].

===''Gone with the Wind''===
In [[Margaret Mitchell]]'s novel ''[[Gone with the Wind (novel)|Gone with the Wind]]'', Aunt Pittypat's coachman, Uncle Peter, protected her when she fled to Macon during [[William Tecumseh Sherman|Sherman]]'s assault on [[Battle of Atlanta|Atlanta]].

=== Telltale's ''The Walking Dead'' ===
The city of Macon is visited in ''[[The Walking Dead (video game)|The Walking Dead]]'' episodic adventure game by [[Telltale Games]] and its standalone DLC ''400 Days''.

In ''Season One'', the city is portrayed as a small rural town and is visited by the main characters as they temporarily set up camp in the city. The city is the hometown of the game's main protagonist and the playable character throughout the game, [[Lee Everett]]. He and the other survivors barricade themselves inside his family's pharmacy as they are besieged by zombies. After one of the survivors dies, the group heads to a motel on the outskirts of Macon where they set up camp for two more episodes, before eventually deciding to leave the city for [[Savannah, Georgia|Savannah]].

In ''400 Days'', the city is briefly shown in the episode "Vince's Story" as a flashback to when the episode's main character, Vince, fatally shoots an unseen and unnamed resident of the city before fleeing into the night before the apocalypse began. This murder would ultimately lead to Vince's arrest and the events that occurred at the beginning of the zombie apocalypse.

=== "Walkin' Back to Georgia" ===
In [[Jim Croce]]'s "Walkin' Back to Georgia" on his album [[You Don't Mess Around with Jim|You Don't Mess Around With Jim]], Croce mentions Macon in the lyric "But she's the girl who said she loved me on that hot dusty Macon road."<ref>{{Cite web |title=But she's the girl who said she loved me / On that hot dusty Macon road / And if she's still around, I'm gonna settle down / With that-a hard lovin' Georgia girl |url=https://genius.com/Jim-croce-walkin-back-to-georgia-lyrics?referent_id=14079112#note-14079112 |access-date=2024-12-24 |website=Genius}}</ref>

=== Goin' to Georgia by The Mountain Goats ===

The [[The Mountain Goats|Mountain Goats]] mention crossing Macon County line in their song Going to Georgia.