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>“It was a small city within a park: playgrounds, gardens, fields, even an elementary school. But it’s a sore spot in Macon’s history,” said Pamela Stanescu of Mercer University and a Macon native.</p>
<p>Comprised of sports fields, a women’s club, and hundreds of flowers, the 75-acre park sat nestled between North Avenue, Spring Street, and Nottingham Drive.</p>
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