Hamilton E. Holmes, also known as H.E. Holmes, is a
metro station
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in
Atlanta, Georgia
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, the western terminus for the
Blue Line in the
Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority
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(MARTA) rail system. This is one of the busiest stations in the MARTA system, handling an average of 22,000 boardings per weekday. When the station opened in 1979 it was originally named Hightower station after Hightower Road (
Georgia 280
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), but both the road and the station were later renamed to honor
civil rights movement
The civil rights movement was a nonviolent social and political movement and campaign from 1954 to 1968 in the United States to abolish legalized institutional Racial segregation in the United States, racial segregation, Racial discrimination ...
hero
Hamilton E. Holmes
Hamilton E. Holmes (8 July 1941 – 26 October 1995) was an American orthopedic physician. He and Charlayne Hunter-Gault were the first two African-American students admitted to the University of Georgia. Additionally, Holmes was the first Afri ...
.
The station primarily serves areas near the junction of
Interstate 20
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and Georgia 280 east of
Adamsville.
Station layout
Attractions
*Frederick Douglass High School
*Benjamin E. Mays High School
*
Six Flags Over Georgia
*
Greenbriar Mall
Buses at this station
The station is served by the following
MARTA bus routes:
* Route 3 - Martin Luther King Jr. Drive / Auburn Avenue
* Route 51 - Joseph E Boone Boulevard.
*
* Route 66 - Lynhurst Drive / Princeton Lakes
* Route 68 - Benjamin E. Mays Drive.
* Route 73 - Fulton Industrial
* Route 153 - James Jackson Parkway
* Route 165 - Fairburn Road./Barge Road park/ride
* Route 201 -
Six Flags Over Georgia
* Route 850 - Carroll Heights / Fairburn Heights
* Route 856 - Baker Hills / Wilson Mill Meadows
* Route 865 - Boulder Park Drive
* Route 867 - Harlan Road / Peyton Forest / Dixie Hills
The station is also served by the following
CobbLinc
CobbLinc (formerly Cobb Community Transit) is the bus public transit system in Cobb County, Georgia, one of metro Atlanta's three most populous suburban County (United States), counties. (The others are Gwinnett County, Georgia, Gwinnett County, ...
bus routes:
* Route 25 - Hurt Road / Old Alabama Road
* Route 30 -
Austell
Austell is a city in Cobb and Douglas Counties in the U.S. state of Georgia. It is part of the Atlanta metropolitan area. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 7,713.
History
The area that is now Austell was frequented by game ...
Road / Floyd Road
See also
*
Cecil B. Moore station, another train station named after a civil rights leader
Cecil B. Moore
Cecil Bassett Moore (April 2, 1915 – February 13, 1979) was a Philadelphia lawyer, politician and civil rights activist who led the fight to integrate Girard College, president of the local NAACP, and member of Philadelphia's city council ...
*
Martin Luther King station, a list of stations named after civil rights leader
Martin Luther King Jr.
References
External links
MARTA Station Pagenycsubway.org Atlanta page
Blue Line (MARTA)
Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority stations
Railway stations in the United States opened in 1979
Railway stations in Atlanta
1979 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
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