- Collection:
- Ellen Payne Odom Genealogy Library Postcard Collection
- Title:
- Ponds in Baconsfield Park, Macon, Ga
- Creator:
- Tichnor Brothers (Boston, Mass.)
- Publisher:
- Macon, Ga. : Service News Co.
- Date of Original:
- 1915/1930
- Subject:
- Parks--Georgia--Macon
Postcards--Georgia--Macon - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Bibb County, Macon, 32.84069, -83.6324
- Medium:
- postcards
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jp2
- Description:
- Postcard (color, linen textured, white border, divided back, 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches) titled "Ponds in Baconsfield Park, Macon, Georgia." The segregated park was comprised of sports fields, a women’s club, and hundreds of flowers, and sat between North Avenue, Spring Street, and Nottingham Drive. It is considered one of Macon’s “Lost Parks.” Originally given to the City in a bequest from Senator August Bacon for the “use, benefit, and enjoyment of white women and children...to be used as a park and pleasure ground.” The Park’s whites-only policy was controversial, eventually becaming known as the Baconsfield dispute and being argued in multiple state Supreme Court cases. Because the mandates of Bacon’s will could no longer be met, the park was closed and returned to the Bacon heirs. No descriptive text on reverse. Postage required: 1 cent stamp. Card number 64538.
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/zgz_epogpc_mccls-pstcrd-179
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/zgz_epogpc_mccls-pstcrd-179#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/zgz_epogpc_mccls-pstcrd-179/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 1 postcard : col. ill.
- Original Collection:
- Ellen Payne Odom Genealogy Library Postcard Collection
- Holding Institution:
- Moultrie-Colquitt County Library System
- Rights:
-
