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What’s in a (highway) name?
Ever spotted a sign marking a road or bridge as a memorial to someone and won
dered who that someone might be? Odds are good he or she might have been a mem
ber of the Georgia Legislature. When the state’s lawmakers are looking to name a piece
of the state highway system, they often honor one of their own.
But other accomplished people have had their names added to the state road map.
In Reporter Newspapers communities, one road is named for a successful developer, an
other for a music mogul, and a third for a World War II flier who named his B-29 for
the mascot of his alma mater, Oglethorpe University.
Here are the namesakes of 15 local bridges, intersections and roads the Georgia De
partment of Transportation lists as officially named by the state.
© Luther S. Colbert Memorial
Bridge
Rep.
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Luther Colbert of Roswell advocated for north Fulton
a decade, until his death in a
County in the state Legislature for
car accident in 1989. Colbert held a seat on Roswell City Coun
cil and served as the city’s Police Commissioner prior to his elec
tion to the House.
Dorothy Felton
Interchange
Rep. Dorothy Felton represented
Sandy Springs in the Georgia House
of Representatives for 25 years. She
chaired the Republican caucus in the
house and worked to help create the
city of Sandy Springs.
State Rep. J. Max Da
vis served 22 years in the
Georgia House of Rep
resentatives. He died of a
heart attack in 2002. As a
lawmaker, he was proud
“that first and foremost he
never voted for a tax increase,” his son, J. Max Davis
Jr., said at the time of his death. The younger Da
vis was elected to be the first mayor of Brookhaven.
Archie L.
Lindsey
Memorial
Bridge
Archie Lindsey ^
held a seat on the
Fulton County Commission from 1953 un
til 1966, and was chairman or vice-chairman
of the board for eight of those years. Prior to
that, he served on the Atlanta City Council
for seven years.
Stephen
J. Schmidt
Memorial
Parkway
During World War II,
Oglethorpe University gradu
ate and football star Stephen
Schmidt flew a bomber he
named the “Stormy Petrel” af
ter the school’s mascot. In lat
er years, he was nicknamed
“Mr. Oglethorpe” for his in
volvement with the school. In
1963, he became an Ogletho
rpe trustee; he chaired the
board for 14 years, s.
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JimTysinger Interchange
Sen. Jim Tysinger represented north DeKalb County in the R
Georgia Senate for 30 years. A life-long Republican who helped J
build the party in Georgia, Tysinger also served as a member of the '
final City Council of the city of North Atlanta, which operated in
part of the area now in the city of Brookhaven, until North Atlan-
ta folded in 1962. Tysinger died in February at age 91.
J. Max Davis
Interchange
T. Harvey Mathis Parkway
Developer T. Harvey Mathis, co-founder of Tay
lor & Mathis, helped remake north metro Atlanta.
His firm developed Perimeter Center, Buckhead Pla
ta, Executive Park and other local landmarks. Three
days before his death in 1991, Mathis was elected
chairman of the board of the Metropolitan Atlan
ta Olympic Games Authority, the group that moni
tored construction of facilities for the 1996 Olympic
Games in Atlanta.
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Bill Lowery Parkway
Music publisher and record company owner Bill Lowery worked
with performers Joe South, Jerry Reed, Dennis Yost and the Classics IV,
Ray Stevens, Mac Davis, Tommy Roe, the Atlanta Rhythm Section and
others. He was the first non-performer inducted into the Georgia Music
Hall of Fame. Lowery died in 2004.
