Oakmulgee Capital Town Ruins in Georgia - where are they?

Interesting book! Thanks! However, there's no telling what kind of ancient civilization(s) there was in Georgia.

There have been so many fires burning down courthouses there was actually a book written on the subject called Georgia Courthouse Disasters.

Who knows what happened at these National Parks. Especially those with Mounds. Although, this "courthouse" may be a remnant of some other civilization.


Looks like something you'd see in Russia or Eastern Europe. But, nope! It's in little Dawson, GA. And there are others like it too in other small towns. The story goes it was built in 1898 but I have yet to see photos of it's construction.

I said all this to say, Georgia's history has been tampered with quite a bit and a lot of strange things have happened with historic sites and buildings like this that seem out of place.

Georgia has many mysteries and it would be fascinating to dig into further and I'd be interested to know if anyone finds anything.

I'm just trying to see whether there was some additional info on the "capital town" mentioned in the OP.

As far as Georgia goes, there’re several pertaining articles in the below section:

• American Georgia

Thanks for this link. I can see you are way ahead of me on the strange things that happened in Georgia's past.

Ocmulgee Mounds are in present-day Macon, Georgia which I think is a key piece of information for this post. I recognize your original post is in reference to "the remains of a grandeur ancient capital", but my hunch is that there is a reason why shop was set up on this critical plot of Georgia land.


After a quick look this morning, maybe the information to the ruins of a "capital town" is in the below 1935 issue of The Georgia Historical Quarterly below.


Back to the idea of Macon's roots. Macon has some pretty insane architecture still standing today, with very little construction photographs available.


Tarheel: This might not be much help, but I wanted to share some of the beautiful Macon architecture that still stands today. Thank you KD for the continued Georgia research. I always love reading your research and insights on my "old stomping grounds".

I’m wondering if this is not packed earth but something much more stable, i.e. rock, concrete or brick. Take a look at these other views of the “mound”.

The grounds around the structure are also peculiarly flat. The grass seems to grow as if it were on a man made structure. This pic seems to show multiple levels to the thing:
Remember what Tenochtitlan looked like before excavation.


It def appears to have facets of a tiered pyramid to me.

I have posted this website in another thread I think.

• The Americas Revealed

I believe they mention this Ockmulgee town in several different posts on their website.

"Present-day Macon, Georgia". I may have found an olden day map of Macon, Georgia. The map has a north arrow , but no legend . The river in the Google/gov maps look like a match, but perhaps the mounds are located off this map.

• Macon, Geo. 1864.

Hey, I found these local fire maps. I looked at a few and did see "Cherry Street". I don't know the specific locations of the buildings you cited.

For your interest:

• Search results for Map, Macon, Georgia, Available Online

KorbenDallas said:

As you can see, the author was talking about some "capital town"

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In this instance I think "capital" is being used in this fashion.