'We need these parks' | Ocmulgee Mounds Reopens After Historic Government Shutdown

After a six-week shutdown halted October sales and cut into key revenue, visitors are returning to Ocmulgee Mounds as park ...
WMAZ

Ocmulgee Mounds and Heritage Trail grows with new land acquisition and funding | Here's what we know

MACON, Ga. — Local and state leaders are ramping up efforts to designate the Ocmulgee Mounds as the nation’s 64th national park, a move that could bring new economic, cultural and environmental ...
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Effort to make Ocmulgee Mounds Georgia’s First National Park and Preserve reintroduced in Congress

ATLANTA — Federal lawmakers from Georgia reintroduced efforts to have the Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park be the state’s first National Park and Preserve in U.S. Congress. Sens. Jon Ossoff ...
The Telegraph

Ossoff ‘cautiously optimistic’ that Ocmulgee Mounds will become a national park

Speaking at the Macon Rotary Club on Monday, Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) said he remains “cautiously optimistic” that a bipartisan bill to make the Ocmulgee Mounds Georgia’s first national park will ...
Time

Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park

The Peach State may have been the fourth to ratify the constitution in 1788, but its human occupation dates back at least 17,000 years—when the original Mississippian people arrived after the last Ice ...
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Ocmulgee Mounds leaders seeking local input as push regarding push for Georgia's first national park

MACON, Ga. — A group trying to create Georgia's first national park wants to hear ideas about the future of Macon's Ocmulgee Mounds. The Ocmulgee Park and Preserve Initiative is trying to make east ...
The Telegraph

Is government shutdown to blame for temporary closure of Ocmulgee Mounds? What we know

Visitors to Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park in Macon were met with chained gates Wednesday morning. The closure comes as the federal government shut down after Congress was unable to agree on ...