Jacksons Springs Park was really cool. It was really interesting to learn all the history of the area, including the Baconsfield area and how these nieghborhoods developed around Macon. It was cool to learn that jacksons Springs park was actually much larger back in the day and extended all the way over to the Baconsfields kroger. A man named Bacon or Baconsfield owned a all of this way back in the day. He had most of this land made into a huge private park that even had a zoo in it! Apparrantly after he died he left the park to the white women and children of Macon, Ga. Obviously this caused some tension since this was racist. Parts of the park have now been converted into commercial areas but the Jackson Springs park remains. I found this all very interesting.
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Jackson Springs Park
We also learned about a lot of geology while we were there. We looked at rocks in its creek. We learned the difference between Feldspar and Quartz. Feldspar breaks into geometric shapes. The pink in granite is feldspar. We also say sandstone, which is very fragile and soapstone. We also learned that metamophic rock looks squashed and has white viens in it.
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Feldspar
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Quartz
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