Memorial Stadium (Waycross)

Memorial Stadium
"The Swamp"
Location	Waycross, Georgia
Opened	1949
Owner	Ware County, Georgia
Surface	Natural Grass
Construction cost	$300,000
Capacity	12,000
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.