Editing Macon, Georgia (section)

===Baconsfield Park===
U.S. Senator [[Augustus Bacon]], of Georgia, in his 1911 will, devised land in Macon in trust, to be used as a public park for the exclusive benefit of white people. The park, known as Baconsfield, was operated in that manner for many years.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Case over Baconsfield Park |url=https://faculty.mercer.edu/davis_da/fys102/baconsfield.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141104092909/http://faculty.mercer.edu/davis_da/fys102/baconsfield.html |archive-date=2014-11-04 |access-date=2022-09-02 |website=Mercer University}}</ref> In ''Evans v. Newton'',<ref>382 U.S. 296 (1966),</ref> the [[Supreme Court of the United States]] held that the park could not continue to be operated on a racially discriminatory basis. The [[Supreme Court of Georgia (U.S. state)|Supreme Court of Georgia]] thereupon declared "that the sole purpose for which the trust was created has become impossible of accomplishment" and remanded the case to the trial court, which held [[Cy-près doctrine|cy-près]] doctrine to be inapplicable, since the park's segregated character was an essential and inseparable part of Bacon's plan. The trial court ruled that the trust failed and that the property reverted to Bacon's heirs. The Supreme Court of Georgia<ref>224 Ga. 826, 165 S.E.2d 160 (1968)</ref> and the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed.<ref>Evans v. Abney, 396 U.S. 435 (1970).</ref> The 50-acre (20 ha) park was lost and commercially developed.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://medium.com/the-bearfaced-truth/baconsfield-macons-missing-park-1fe5ec37c0cb|title = Baconsfield: Macon's Missing Park|date = May 3, 2019}}</ref>