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The Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park covers about 35 acres (0.14 km 2) and includes several sites in Atlanta, Georgia related to the life and work of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
The John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act, signed March 12, 2019, redesignated it as a national historical park and increased its size by about 2,100 acres. [23] It has an NPS-owned area of 701 acres (2.84 km 2 ).
In the east-central part of Macon, I-16 travels through Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park but without direct access. Visitors need to first exit at the US 80/SR 87 exit. On the southern edge of the national monument, it crosses over Walnut Creek. It then travels on a bridge over some railroad tracks of CSX and Boggy Branch.
• Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial: The first memorial to honor an African American individual on the National Mall, it opened to the public in 2011 and features a powerful 30-foot statue of King ...
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Located in Macon, the Ocmulgee Mounds Park and Preserve is already designated a National Historical Park and contains over 17,000 years of historical artifacts. “This week, we took a historic ...
State Route 87 Connector (SR 87 Conn.) is a 2.1-mile-long (3.4 km) connecting route of SR 87. It connects US 23/SR 87 with US 319/SR 27 west of Eastman.. It is a four-lane divided highway designed to provide easy access for drivers on US 23 and SR 87 to US 341/SR 27 in order to bypass Eastman since US 23 and SR 87 pass through the center of Eastman while US 341/SR 27 skirts around Eastman to ...
There are eight of these in Georgia. The National Park Service lists these eight together with the NHLs in the state, [5] The Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site is also an NHL and is listed above. The remaining seven are: