(478) 472-5643. Macon County, its territory drawn from Houston and Marion counties in 1837, is named for Nathaniel Macon, a North Carolina statesÂ­man and U.S. senator. Oglethorpe, the county seat, is named for Georgia's founder, James Oglethorpe.
Slavic people did not harm anybody but just peacefully migrated into area previously voluntarily abandoned by all Germanic tribes, who thus renounced their rights to that land (including modern East Germany). Today in Europe Slavic-speaking people are more numerous than Germanic and Romance speakers.
Polish Americans are the largest of the Slavic groups in the United States and represent some of the earliest colonists in the New World. Immigration reached new heights between the mid-19th century and World War I, when an estimated 2.5 million Poles entered the United States.