WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of Georgia lawmakers is renewing a push to make Ocmulgee Mounds in Middle Georgia the state’s first national park and preserve.

Georgia’s two U.S. senators and two members of the U.S. House from South Georgia Wednesday reintroduced legislation to establish the Ocmulgee Mounds as the state’s first national park. The Senate ...

The mounds they built, which are currently a national historic site that includes ... are set to become America’s 64th National Park and Georgia’s first. To honor the area’s indigenous ...

Ocmulgee Mounds National Historic Park in Macon, Ga. was honored in Time magazine on Thursday, March 13, 2025. Margaret Walker Ocmulgee Mounds National Historic Park in Macon was named one Time ...

TIME has named Ocmulgee Mounds ... Peach State's first national park. The area along the Ocmulgee River downstream from Macon in central Georgia includes mounds and other cultural or historic ...