Memorial Stadium (Waycross)

Memorial Stadium
"The Swamp"
Location Waycross, Georgia
Owner Ware County, Georgia
Capacity 12,000
Surface Natural Grass
Construction
Opened 1949
Construction cost $300,000
Tenants
Ware Co. Gators
Waycross Bulldogs (1949–1993)
Waycross Bears (1950–1955)
Waycross Braves (1956–1958, 1963)

Memorial Stadium is a 12,000-capacity county-owned stadium located in Waycross, Georgia, the largest city in and county seat of Ware County in the southern part of the state.

Noted for its J-shaped main stand, Memorial Stadium was originally intended as a multi-use venue that would be home to both baseball and football in Ware County. During the 1950s and 1960s the stadium played host to a duo of Georgia–Florida League teams, the Bears and the Braves in addition to hosting high school football in the autumn.

In 2002 the stadium was renovated and became a venue exclusively for sports played on rectangular fields (chiefly football, though soccer is also played at the venue occasionally) with the addition of a new stand running along the northern sideline.

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