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Fulton County
=Frankie Allen Park= 100 Bagley St NE Atlanta, GA 30305 Frankie Allen Park webpage

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Frankie Allen Park
Coordinates: 33.8367985, -84.3736428 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

About Frankie Allen Park
Frankie Allen Park off Pharr Road has long been associated with the Garden Hills neighborhood and Buckhead Baseball. The park has baseball diamonds, tennis courts and a long meadow dotted with large granite picnic/grilling areas.

The area now occupied by the park once was known as Macedonia Park, a black community of about 400 families, in the late 1800s. The Mount Olive Methodist-Episcopal Church was located there in the early 1900s. Its cemetery remains in a corner of the park near the entrance. Graves are still visited, and small wreaths and other tokens are sometimes left beside the old stones. Efforts are underway to properly mark the cemetery and protect it from passers-by.

Bagley Park was established on the land in the mid-1950s, named in honor of Charlie Bagley, a prominent Buckhead businessman. Under terms imposed by the sellers when Fulton County condemned and bought the neighborhood, the land could only be used for a public park.

In 1980, the park was renamed Frankie Allen Park in honor of a popular law officer and baseball umpire who had died the year before. From Frankie Allen Park webpage

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