Herty Field

Herty Field, also known as Alumni Athletic Field, was the original on-campus playing venue for football, Track and field and baseball at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia.

Photo: Pruddle, CC BY 2.5.

Type: Park
Description: sports venue in Athens, Georgia
Also known as: “Alumni Athletic Field”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Tree That Owns Itself and Sanford Stadium.

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 2,100 feet west of Herty Field.

Sanford Stadium

Stadium

Dooley Field at Sanford Stadium is the on-campus playing venue for football at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia, United States. The 93,033-seat stadium is the ninth-largest American football stadium in the NCAA, and the 15th-largest such stadium in the world. Sanford Stadium is situated 2,300 feet south of Herty Field.

Georgia Theatre

Music venue

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

Georgia Theatre is a live music venue and event space in Athens, Georgia. National and local acts across all genres have performed at the theatre, including rock, folk, country, indie, alternative, hip hop and electronic. Georgia Theatre is situated 1,000 feet northwest of Herty Field.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Athens and Five Points.

Athens

Photo: Rob, CC BY 2.0.

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.

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. Normaltown is situated 1½ miles west of Herty Field.

Herty Field

Categories: stadium and recreation area
Location: Clarke County, Georgia, South, United States, North America
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Latitude

33.95591° or 33° 57′ 21″ north

Longitude

-83.37559° or 83° 22′ 32″ west

Inception

1891

Open location code

865RXJ4F+9Q

OpenStreetMap ID

way 498690126

OpenStreetMap feature

leisure=park

Wikidata ID

Q5744894

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

“Herty Field” goes by many names.

Dutch: “Herty Field”

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Herty Field Fountain and Gilbert Hall.

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