Martin Luther King Park

Martin Luther King Park is a park in Tangipahoa, Louisiana which is located on Martin Luther King Avenue. Martin Luther King Park is situated nearby to the locality Hammond, as well as near the hamlet Woodland Park.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Hammond station and Columbia Theatre for the Performing Arts.

Hammond station

Railway station

Photo: Richard David Ramsey, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Hammond station is an Amtrak train station in Hammond, Louisiana, United States. It is a station on Amtrak's daily City of New Orleans route which runs between Chicago and New Orleans.

Columbia Theatre for the Performing Arts

Theater building

Photo: Angie Garrett, CC BY 2.0.

The Columbia Theatre for the Performing Arts is a historic theatre located in downtown Hammond, Louisiana.

Grace Memorial Episcopal Church

Church

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Grace Memorial Episcopal Church is a historic church at 100 W. Church Street in Hammond, Louisiana, U.S.A. It was built in 1876, consecrated in 1888, and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hammond and Tickfaw.

Hammond

Town

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Hammond is the largest city in Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, United States, located 45 miles east of Baton Rouge and 45 miles northwest of New Orleans.

Tickfaw

Village

Tickfaw was founded in 1852 and is a village in Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, United States. As of the 2020 census, Tickfaw had a population of 635. Tickfaw is part of the Hammond MSA. Tickfaw is situated 5 miles north of Martin Luther King Park.

Ponchatoula

Town

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Ponchatoula is the second-largest city in Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana. The population was 6,559 at the 2010 census and 7,545 at the time of the 2020 population estimates program. Ponchatoula is situated 5 miles south of Martin Luther King Park.

Martin Luther King Park

Type: Park
Address: Martin Luther King Avenue, Hammond, LA 70401
Category: recreation area
Location: Tangipahoa, Louisiana, South, United States, North America
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Latitude

30.5099° or 30° 30′ 36″ north

Longitude

-90.4561° or 90° 27′ 22″ west

Elevation

59 feet (18 metres)

Named after

Martin Luther King Jr.

Open location code

862FGG5V+XH

OpenStreetMap ID

way 489115385

OpenStreetMap feature

leisure=park

GeoNames ID

11103240

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