Question of the Week: Has something been named after someone in your family? [closed]

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Has something been named after someone in your family? Tell us about it with an answer below. You can also use the question image to share your answer with friends and family on social media. 

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My family is related to Strom Thurmond. Lots of stuff named after him. Prolly gonna be renamed soon, though.

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Oooooh, lookee.. Betteeeeeee said "prolly"!  

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Paul Street, Sandgate, Queensland.  Yep.  And my family had lived in the area for more than 100 years, right up until the death of my step-mother. (I have a sibling who lives in the extended region (as in: not in Sandgate, but in a not-too-far-away suburb), and my son used to live just across the bridge.)

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:)

Southerners, waddayagunado?

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Hey, are you sure you're not my long-lost sister? 

I've used that expression most of my life -- and I'm from the south.  The deep, DEEP South. Like WAAAAAAAAY far south.  Although, not so far south as the frozen wastes of the great white wilderness they call Antarctica.  

(Bet ya dinnunt pick up what I meant with the "Betteeeeeee".  (Although, if you did, best PM me if you want to share instead of us threadjacking.))

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I dinnut pick up on the Betteeee I guess I'm from futha nawth. I'm guessing we are near cousins. We talk the same. :)

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If there were an award for "Best Question" as there is for "Best Answer", I would give it to this question. It has generated the most interesting answers. Thank you.

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I agree with Joyce. Very interesting answers.

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Bledsoe state park in Tennessee is named after my Uncles who settled that state.

The park was their land and is also. Their graveyard.

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A brick in the sidewalk leading to Liberty University's library has all my children's names on it. A  Road around Kellart Lake (named after Bob Kellerall and Art Hislop, partners who developed my grandfather's Hickman and Hislop land) in Cissna Park, Illinois is named Hislop Drive after my mother's side of the family. There are many towns all around the country named after my father's side the Clarks. I think every town in America has a Clark Street. Yay!

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In New Hope Community in Marion County MS Bill McCain Road was named after my grandfather. For many years their house was the only one on the road. Also Turnage Chapel Church and cemetery were named after my 3rd & 4th great grandfather Robert Daniel Turnage who started the church. In community of Kokomo Turnage Cemetery was named after James Jacob Turnage my 3rd great grandfather. Also in Washington Parish, LA is a McCain Cemetery named after my 4th great grandfather.

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There is a Wyruck Rd, near Hanford, California named for my great grandfather b. Francois Weyrauch, lived and died as Francis Wyruck.

there is a town named Myrtle in Oregon Co., Missouri named for my husband's great great aunt, Jessie Myrtle Moore who went by Myrtle. we don't know what happened to her after 1880. I wrote the historical society there but they didn't reply back and I wonder if they thought we would try to claim the town. we know Myrtle's parents, Thomas Edwin Moore and Martha K. Dunheiffer Moore sold it, so we have no claim to it.

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Edwards Run Wildlife Preserve, on a tributary of the Cacapon river in Wv, named for the Joseph Edwards (8x ggf) family who settled there in 1748

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Bowes Road, in Concord, Vaughan, Toronto, Ontario is named for the family of [[Bowes-832|Anthony Bowes (1789-1870)]] who farmed in the area, until the middle of the last century.

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"Terry Hill" in Poteau, Oklahoma.

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My many great Father's back to 1760 in Woburn Massachusetts where  he was born is Philemon wright who established one of the first known settlements in Canada whitch he had named Columbia or Columbus falls Quebec Canada now known as Hull Quebec he has at least a couple things in Hull Quebec named after him and as well philemon's brother Patrice wright grandfather to Wilbur and Orville wright

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Yes, Woodhead Street, Fitzroy, Melbourne is named after my ancestor Benjamin Woodhead, who served on the local Council there for many years. He also was a Police Magistrate, Landowner and Property owner and well known in the area at the time. His name is also on the foundation stone at Fitzroy Town Hall.

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Ballard Field in Marion, Indiana. My maternal grandfather's family had a meat packing plant. Long after it had been closed and demolished, a recreational area was created and named "Ballard Field".

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White Mountain Rd in Albemarle County VA. This was where many of the descendants of Daniel White lived.

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The 'Baldwin Apple'! There is quite a nice profile for my cousin, Loammi Baldwin, who developed the apple https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Baldwin-6646

Loammi Baldwin built the first drydock in the U.S. at Boston Harbor. He is probably best remembered for the Baldwin apple, which he developed on his farm, or rather recognized its potential and propagated it throughout the northeast. Below: Baldwin Apple Monument in Woburn, Massachusetts.

AND another cousin was John Chapman AKA 'Johnny Appleseed'? You can read more about him here: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Chapman-4652

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Luckenbach, Texas

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Girman Point in Manitoba, Canada is named after my uncle Louis Girman (1918-1941) who was a casualty in World War II.

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My grandfather, Prof Percy John Daniell (Daniell-331), as a mathematician has the Daniell Integral named after him.

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Whoops! I meant to answer this on Thursday.

My maternal grandmother's family has literally hundreds of newspapers named for them. The influence of this poor, Irish-American farming family on journalism throughout the English-speaking world, as evidenced by these many eponymous works, is almost unfathomable.

Just a small sampling: London's Daily Mail, New York's Daily News, Chicago's Daily Herald, Sydney's Daily Telegraph.

Honestly, I don't understand why I never got that pony as a little girl. 

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Hahahaha!!!! You've got me laughing out loud!!! (I never got a pony either!)

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That is awesome, Karen! Never got a pony, too. I wanted a big rig that transformed into a twenty foot tall robot....

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my late husband's family has a road named after them , Goodson Road in White County, Tennessee,  my grandmother was Lillian Pearl Denton Williams , profile Denton-1910 ,  born in Quebeck, White , Tennessee, my 4th cousin, 5 times removed John Bunyan Denton , profile Denton-595 , had a city and county named after him , Denton , Texas

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I just found another one. My 10th ggf was Captain John Seaman from England. He settled in Hempstead, Long Island, New York Colony in approximately 1631. John bought land from the Massapequa Indians in 1664 in the Seaford area, and now there is a street named Seaman Neck Road in Seaford, NY.

Co-incidentally, my father was hit by a car in 2014 while crossing Seaman’s Neck Road and killed. The irony is not lost on me...

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A vey old castle, now a Fair Trade community in SW England, Castle Cary, MANY towns in the US, a family cemetery in my home County in West Tennessee in what is now a State Park, and a street in my neighboring hometown.

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I looked up "Castle Cary", and I suspect that it is the other way round, that the family took the name from the castle or the town.  According to Wikipedia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Cary ) "The word Cary derives from the Celtic caer meaning rock, crag or castle, making the term Castle Cary a double-play."

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Rihn Strasse in Gibsonia PA.  the developer named the plan Rihn Platz in honor of my father's family.

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My husband's ancestors settled in the Wexford area of western Pennsylvania in the 1800s.  Their farms were Pine and Marshall townships,  Locations named for them include Shenot, Brooker, and Swinderman Roads in Wexford, PA.  Also Pegher Orchard in Franklin Park, PA.

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There definitely several things named after a relative of mine, William J. Hutchins.  The city of Hutchins, Texas was named for him. There is a Hutchins Street in Houston named for him. It also has a cross street named Dennis which was kind of odd the first time I saw it on a map.

Answer 20

Yes there is a street in Dedemsvaart, Overijssel, Netherlands called ZWIERS STRAAT, it used to be ZWIERS WIJK.