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Macon-Bibb opens Bicentennial Park with land acknowledgment and new public artworks
Summary
Macon-Bibb County leaders and artists opened Bicentennial Park, featuring commissioned works that honor Muscogee history; the ceremony included a formal land acknowledgment, artist remarks about cultural symbolism, and a ribbon unveiling by Mayor Melissa Miller.
Macon-Bibb County officials, artists and community members gathered to open Bicentennial Park, a new public space at the base of the Ocmulgee mounds in Macon, with a formal land acknowledgment and a series of commissioned artworks intended to honor local Indigenous and African American histories.
Tracy Rivas, chair of the park committee, delivered the county land acknowledgment: “The government and citizens of Macon Bibb County respectfully acknowledge the Muscogee, Ujohaw, Zoyaha people who lived, worked, produced knowledge on, nurtured the land now known as…
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