Bishop Park
Bishop Park is a park in Clarke County, Georgia. Bishop Park is situated nearby to the locality Fowler Junction, as well as near the neighborhood Normaltown.Places of Interest
Highlights include Carnegie Library Building and Piedmont Athens Regional.
Carnegie Library Building
Library
Photo: RFoxx, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Carnegie Library Building is an historic building in Athens, Georgia. It was one of many such libraries donated by Andrew Carnegie which were named Carnegie Library after him.
Piedmont Athens Regional
Hospital
Piedmont Athens Regional Medical Center is a hospital in Athens, Georgia. The hospital has 427 beds, a trauma center, and a neonatal intensive care unit.
Tree That Owns Itself
Photo: Boston Public Library, Public domain.
The Tree That Owns Itself is a white oak tree that, according to legend, has legal ownership of itself and of all land within eight feet of its base. Also known as the Jackson Oak, the tree is at the corner of South Finley and Dearing Streets in Athens, Georgia, US. Tree That Owns Itself is situated 2 miles east of Bishop Park.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Normaltown and Athens.
Normaltown
Neighborhood
Normaltown is a neighborhood in Athens, Georgia, by the Athens Regional Medical Center and named for the State Normal School formerly located there. It was the first area of Athens to be wired for electricity after the completion of the Mitchell Bridge hydroelectric plant in 1896.
Athens
Athens is a vibrant college town of 127,000 people in the Classic Heartland region of Georgia. Athens is most popular in the late summer and fall when students, families of students or college football fans visit the University of Georgia.
Five Points
Neighborhood
Five Points is a retail corridor and neighborhood in Athens, Georgia, centered on the intersection of Milledge Avenue and Lumpkin Street. It occupies the South-Southwest edge of the University of Georgia campus. Five Points is situated 2½ miles southeast of Bishop Park.
Bishop Park
- Type: Park
- Category: recreation area
- Location: Clarke County, Georgia, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
33.96532° or 33° 57′ 55″ northLongitude
-83.41285° or 83° 24′ 46″ westElevation
758 feet (231 metres)Open location code
865RXH8P+4VOpenStreetMap ID
way 186174954OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=parkGeoNames ID
4183171
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