Fort Hawkins Historic Site


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  Fort Hawkins Historic Site
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America's Forgotten Fort & Frontier
click here for a colorful and informative Membership Brochure
Overlooking the Ocmulgee Old Fields and the Ocmulgee National Monument in Macon, GA.
Built in 1806, this was the supply base for the army in the war of 1812. It served as a trading center prior to the founding of Macon in 1823. A reconstructed blockhouse offers a museum that can be toured. Contact the Macon-Bibb County CVB for more information.

Blockhouse  

Emery Hwy at Maynard St.
Macon, GA
Toll-Free: (800) 768-3401
Phone: (478) 743-3401


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CALENDAR:


  Society of GA Archaeology Artifact ID Day, May 17, 2008

  Summer Friends Cleanup & Picnic, May 17, 2008


  3rd Annual Fort Hawkins Benefit Open Car Show, June 7, 08     (in historic Downtown Macon)


  6th Annual July 4th Celebration, July 4, 2008


  7th Annual Halstead Family Reunion, August 9, 2008  


  Ocmulgee Celebration Open House, September 20-21, 2008


  First Fort Frontier Rendezvous, September 20-21, 2008


  Fall Friends Cleanup & Picnic, Saturday, September 20, 2008


  Outer Palisade Archaeological Dig & Reconstruction, October 08


Fort Hawkins School Reunion, October 11, 2008


 Winter Friends Cleanup & Picnic, Saturday, November 8, 2008 


3rd Annual Veterans Day Salute, November 11, 2008


3rd Annual Frontier Fort Christmas, December 5, 2008









Contacts:
"Marty and Lisa Willett" <liwi@cox.net>

2008 FORT HAWKINS COMMISSION MEMBERS

 Mr. Marty Willett, Chairman

 Rev. Victor Hunt, Vice Chairman
  Ms. Mary Lee Rogers, Secretary
  Mrs. Lynn Halstead Stokes, Treasurer
  Mrs. Echo Halstead Burrell
  Mr. Mike Cranford
  Mr. Ed DeFore
  Rev. Richard Gammage
  Mr. John Goolsby
  Mr. Sam Hart, Sr.
  Dr. Eric Klingelhofer
 
   EX OFFICIO MEMBERS
    Mrs. Sandra Adams, Nathaniel Macon Chapter N.S.D.A.R.
  Mr. Grady Burrell, Jr., Fort Benefit Car Show Coordinator
  Mr. Mac Cone, Fort Hawkins School
  Dr. Lindsay Holliday, President Ocmulgee Nat. Mon. Assoc.
   Ms. Marion Joseph, Fort Hawkins School
  Mr. Michael Lynch, President Mid. GA Vietnam Veterans
  Mr. David Mincey, President Ocmulgee Archeological Soc.
  Mrs. Kitty Oliver, Middle Georgia Historical Society
  Mrs. Judy Smith, N.S.D.A.R., U.S.D.1812, U.D.C.
  Mrs. Dianne Dent Wilcox, Fort Hawkins Historian


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