BIBB COUNTY, Ga. — Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park in Bibb County is the latest Georgia national park to expand accessibility to Georgians with the addition of an all-terrain wheelchair.
ATLANTA — A quartet of Georgia’s federal lawmakers have introduced bipartisan legislation to set the Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park as the first National Park and Preserve in the state.
There's a rare alliance at work at the state and national level: U.S. Senators Raphael Warnock and Jon Osoff have teamed up with U.S. Rep. Rick Allen and Marjorie Taylor Greene to make the Ocmulgee ...
A bipartisan group of more than a dozen lawmakers are hoping to establish the next new national park in central Georgia. That's the proposal in a bill currently making its way through Congress, led by ...
Although the state of Georgia has 11 sites designated by the National Park Service, over 60 parks, and 17 historic sites, an official National Park has been in the works for over 90 years. This week, ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The bipartisan Ocmulgee Mounds Park and Preserve Establishment Act has passed a key U.S. Senate Committee — a key step toward establishing Georgia’s first-ever National Park and ...
Georgia is getting closer to passing a resolution that would establish the first National Park in the state. If House Resolution 2345 passes, Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park would also become ...
MACON, Ga. — In the new year, federal lawmakers will have to climb mounds of paperwork again, to re-file a bill to make the Ocmulgee Historical Mounds into a national park. It's at least the second ...
The Georgia Department of Transportation donated 136 acres of wetlands to the proposed Ocmulgee National Park. The land transfer advances the bipartisan effort to elevate the Ocmulgee Mounds National ...
The bill that would make the Ocmulgee Mounds in Macon Georgia’s first national park faced delays at the end of 2024, but initiative leaders remain hopeful. Margaret Walker The bill to make the ...
MACON, Ga. - Georgia’s congressional delegation introduced legislation Wednesday to protect some of the ancestral lands of the Muscogee tribe as a national park and preserve. The proposed Ocmulgee ...