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Macon County
Historic Marker
Location
of sign - 101 E. Northside St., Tuskegee, Alabama
Photo
taken- January 2006
Photo
courtesy of Jimmy Wayne
Text
of sign
Macon County
Legal Milestone
Macon
County was created by the Alabama Legislature December 18, 1832 and
formed out of land formerly belonging to the
Creek
Indians. The county was named for Nathaniel Macon, a
Revolutionary War soldier and long-serving political leader
from
North
Carolina. Macon county has a unique distinction in Alabama history.
In the 1950's, due to civil rights-era hysteria, the
legislature
targeted the county to be abolished. In December 1955, the citizens
of Alabama, by a two to one majority, approved
Amendment
No. 132 to the Alabama Constitution which authorized the legislature
to appoint a committee to study and determine
the
feasibility of abolishing Macon county or reducing its area by
making it part of surrounding counties. This Amendment
remained
a
part of the Alabama Constitution until the voters in 1962 repealed
it with Amendment No. 406.
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