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