Wesleyan College

Historical marker location:

451 College Street, Macon, Georgia

( Marker is at the intersection of College Street and Georgia Avenue, on the right when traveling south on College Street.)

Marker installed: 1992

First College Chartered to Grant Degrees to Women. December 23, 1836.

The city of Atlanta hosted the Summer Olympics in 1996, and it was the first time that a bomb exploded at the Olympic Games, killing two people and injuring over 100 others.