Baconsfield: Macon’s Missing Park

<p>The year is 1971. The sun rises, dew set on bushes of azaleas and roses across from a little league field. It is the last day of Baconsfield Park. By 1986, the fields and garden paths will be overgrown and bulldozed over for a shopping center and apartment complex.</p> <p>&ldquo;It was a small city within a park: playgrounds, gardens, fields, even an elementary school. But it&rsquo;s a sore spot in Macon&rsquo;s history,&rdquo; said Pamela Stanescu of Mercer University and a Macon native.</p> <p>Comprised of sports fields, a women&rsquo;s club, and hundreds of flowers, the 75-acre park sat nestled between North Avenue, Spring Street, and Nottingham Drive.</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/the-bearfaced-truth/baconsfield-macons-missing-park-1fe5ec37c0cb"><strong>Visit Now</strong></a></p>