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List of memorials to George Washington

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This is a list of memorials to George Washington, commander-in-chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War and first president of the United States.

States, counties, and townships

For additional municipalities named for George Washington, see: § In the United States (below).
For 10 other states that have townships named for George Washington, see: Washington Township (disambiguation).

One of the United States, 31 counties, and 241 civil townships are named for George Washington.

Place Type
Washington state
Washington County 30 counties
Washington Parish, Louisiana county equivalent
Washington Township, Arkansas 11 townships
Washington Township, North Dakota township
Washington Township, South Dakota 3 townships
Washington Township, Illinois 3 townships
Washington Township, Michigan 3 townships
Washington Township, Nebraska 4 townships
Washington Township, New Jersey 5 townships
Washington Township, Ohio 43 townships
Town of Washington, Wisconsin 7 township equivalents
Town of Port Washington, Wisconsin township equivalent
Lake Washington Township, North Dakota township

Municipalities and inhabited areas

Place State Type
Washington District of Columbia city
Washington Arkansas city
Washington Georgia city
Washington Illinois city
Washington Indiana city
Washington Iowa city
Washington Kansas city
Washington Missouri city
Washington North Carolina city
Washington Pennsylvania city
Washington Utah city
Washington Connecticut town
Washington Louisiana town
Washington Maine town
Washington Massachusetts town
Washington New Hampshire town
Washington New York town
Washington Oklahoma town
Washington Vermont town
Washington Virginia town
Washington Kentucky village
Washington Nebraska village
Washington New Jersey borough
Washington Mississippi unincorporated community
Washington Wisconsin unincorporated community
Washington West Virginia CDP
Port Washington Wisconsin city
Fort Washington Pennsylvania city
North Washington Iowa city
Washington Court House Ohio city
Washington Terrace Utah city
Mount Washington Kentucky city
Mount Washington Massachusetts town
Washington Grove Maryland town
Washington Park North Carolina town
Washington Park Illinois village
Port Washington North New York village
Little Washington Virginia village
Port Washington Ohio village
Old Washington Ohio village
New Washington Ohio village
Washingtonville Ohio village
Washingtonville New York village
Washingtonville Pennsylvania borough
New Washington Pennsylvania borough
East Washington Pennsylvania borough
Washington Valley New Jersey unincorporated community
Washington Crossing New Jersey unincorporated community
Washington Crossing Pennsylvania unincorporated community
Washington-on-the-Brazos Texas unincorporated community
Washington Mills Iowa unincorporated community
Washington Prairie Iowa unincorporated community
Fort Washington Maryland CDP
Fort Washington California CDP
New Washington Indiana CDP
George Washington city
Georgetown Kentucky CDP

Institutions

Forts

Estates

  • Washington Place, Honolulu, private residence of Queen Liliʻuokalani of Hawaiʻi

Geological features

Parks

Neighborhoods

Transportation

Monuments

United States

Washington, D.C.

California

  • Washington Tree, Sequoia National Park. Second-tallest tree in the world, prior to a 2003 lightning strike and 2005 collapse.
  • Washington Square Park, San Francisco (1847)
  • George Washington (1870s), by Thomas Ball, Washington Monument, Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Los Angeles
  • Copy (1933) after George Washington by Jean-Antoine Houdon (1791), Civic Center, Los Angeles
  • George Washington High School, San Francisco (1936)
    • The school contains a copy of Houdon's George Washington. Its 13 "Life of Washington" murals (1936) by Victor Arnautoff are threatened with removal, as of Summer 2019.[1]

Colorado

Connecticut

Georgia

  • George Washington National Highway, begins in Savannah, Georgia and ends in Seattle, Washington
  • George Washington – "Iron George" (circa 1841), by Alonzo Blanchard, Stone Mountain Park, Stone Mountain
  • Washington Park, Atlanta (1919). The first non-segregated public park in the city.

Illinois

Indiana

Iowa

  • Washington Park, Dubuque (1857)

Louisiana

Maine

  • Washington Academy, a boarding school in East Machias, founded in 1792

Maryland

Massachusetts

Michigan

Minnesota

Missouri

  • Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis. Chartered as Eliot Seminary in 1853, it was renamed Washington Institute in 1854, renamed Washington University in 1856, and renamed Washington University in St. Louis in 1976
  • Copy (1856) of George Washington by Jean-Antoine Houdon (1791), Lafayette Park, St. Louis
  • Washington Terrace (St. Louis), a gated community founded about 1892
  • George Washington Memorial (1925), Kansas City. A copy after Henry Shrady's equestrian statue in Brooklyn, New York.
  • Copy (2003) of George Washington by Jean-Antoine Houdon (1791), Washington University, St. Louis

New Hampshire

New Jersey

  • George Washington (ca. 1876), by Mahlon Dickerson Eyre, Montgomery Plaza, Trenton. Exhibited at the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  • Colossal statue of George Washington, Father of His Country (1891–93), by William Rudolf O'Donovan, atop Trenton Battle Monument, Trenton
  • George Washington, the Father of His Country (1896), by Nels N. Alling, Perth Amboy City Hall, Perth Amboy
  • George Washington (1912), by J. Massey Rhind, Washington Park, Newark
  • Bas-relief of General George Washington (1916), by Mahonri Mackintosh Young, Leonia Presbyterian Church, Leonia
  • George Washington at Valley Forge (1918), by Carlo Abate, Camden County Hall of Justice, Camden
  • Princeton Battle Monument (1922) by Frederick MacMonnies, Princeton, New Jersey
  • Equestrian statue of George Washington (1927–28), by Frederick Roth, Washington's Headquarters, Morristown
  • George Washington Kneeling in Prayer (1991), by Donald De Lue (completed by Granville Carter), George Washington Memorial Park, Paramus.[5] A copy of De Lue's 1967 statue is at the Freedoms Foundation in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.[6]

New York

New York City
  • Bust of George Washington (1795), by Giuseppe Ceracchi, Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Washington Square Park (1826). Created as Washington Military Parade Ground; renamed 1871. Bounded by Waverly Place, University Place (Washington Square East), West 4th Street (Washington Square South), and Macdougal Street (Washington Square West).
  • Equestrian statue of George Washington (1856), by Henry Kirke Brown, Union Square, Manhattan. This was the first equestrian statue of Washington.
  • George Washington (1882), by John Quincy Adams Ward, in front of Federal Hall National Memorial, Wall Street, Manhattan
  • Washington Square Arch (1892), Stanford White, architect, Washington Square Park, Manhattan. Two statues were later added:
    • George Washington as Commander-in-Chief, Accompanied by Fame and Valor (1914–16), by Hermon MacNeil
    • George Washington as President, Accompanied by Wisdom and Justice (1916–18), by Alexander Stirling Calder
  • Equestrian statue of George Washington at Valley Forge (1901–06), by Henry Shrady, Continental Army Plaza, Brooklyn
  • General George Washington in Prayer at Valley Forge (1904), by James E. Kelly, Federal Hall National Memorial, Manhattan
  • George Washington Bridge (1930), over Hudson River
  • Copy (ca. 1930) after George Washington by Jean-Antoine Houdon (1791), City College of New York, Manhattan
  • George Washington as Master Mason (1959, this cast 1964), by Donald De Lue, Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, Queens. Exhibited at the 1964 New York World's Fair.
Outside New York City

North Carolina

Ohio

  • Washington Park, Cincinnati (1863)
  • Copy (1920) of George Washington by Jean-Antoine Houdon (1791), Alumni Hall, Miami University, Oxford
  • George Washington Monument (1972–73), by William McVey, Washington Square, Anthony J. Celebrezze Federal Building, Cleveland[7]

Oklahoma

Oregon

Pennsylvania

Rhode Island

South Carolina

South Dakota

Texas

Utah

Virginia

Washington (state)

Wisconsin

Wyoming

  • George Washington Memorial Park (Jackson, Wyoming)

Argentina

Colombia

France

  • La Fayette and Washington (1890–1900), by Auguste Bartholdi, Place des États-Unis, Paris
  • Equestrian statue of George Washington (1900), by Daniel Chester French and Edward Clark Potter, Place d'Iéna, Paris
  • Copy after George Washington by Jean-Antoine Houdon (1791), Saint-Martin-de-Ré

Hungary

  • George Washington, Father of American Democracy (1906), by Gyula Bezerédi, City Park, Budapest. A gift from Hungarian-Americans.

Mexico

  • George Washington (1910–12, destroyed), by Pompeo Coppini, Plaza Washington, Colonia Juárez, Mexico City. A gift from Americans commemorating the 1910 centennial of Mexican Independence, the statue was toppled and dragged through the streets in reaction to the 1914 United States invasion of Veracruz.[11]
  • Another Statue of George Washington was presented to the city by the United States government in 1916.

Peru

Thailand

United Kingdom

Venezuela

Other

In the United States

See also: § States, counties, and townships (above).

Some of the locations below are named for George Washington:

  • the 241 townships in the United States named Washington; see Washington Township (disambiguation)
  • the 26 cities, 1 borough, and 1 village named Washington; see Washington (disambiguation)
  • the 2 villages and 1 borough named Washingtonville (disambiguation)
  • the 15 mountains, town, city, and four neighborhoods named Mount Washington

Outside the United States

Places named for George Washington outside of the United States include:

  • George Washington, a small town in Cuba's Villa Clara Province[14]
  • George Washington Avenue (Spanish: Avenida George Washington) in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
  • George Washington Avenue (Polish: Aleja Jerzego Waszyngtona) in Warsaw, Poland
  • George Washington Roundabout (Polish: Rondo Jerzego Waszyngtona) in Warsaw, Poland
  • George Washington Street (Serbian: Улица Џорџа Вашингтона/Ulica Džordža Vašingtona) in Belgrade, Serbia
  • New Washington, a small town in Aklan Province, Philippines
  • Washington Avenue (Italian: Viale Washington) in Rome, Italy
  • Washington Avenue (German: Washington Allee) in Hamburg, Germany
  • Washington Island, a coral atoll belonging to Kiribati
  • Washington Street in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
  • Washington Street (French: Rue Washington) in Paris, France; 8th arrondissement
  • Washington Street (French: Rue Washington; Dutch: Washingtonstraat) in Ixelles, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium
  • Washington Street, Cork, in Cork, Ireland
  • Washington Park (Spanish: Parque Washington) in Barranquilla, Colombia
  • George Washington Street (Ukrainian: Вулиця Джорджа Вашингтона) in Lviv, Ukraine
  • Washington Place, a village in Dasmariñas, Cavite
  • Cape Washington, in Antarctica (74°39′S 165°25′E / 74.650°S 165.417°E) and Greenland (83°31′N 38°0′W / 83.517°N 38.000°W)

See also

References

  1. ^ Weiss, Bari. "San Francisco Will Spend $600,000 to Erase History", The New York Times, June 28, 2019.
  2. ^ Washington by Donald De Lue from SIRIS.
  3. ^ Knox Trail Monument No. 25 (Massachusetts) Archived 2012-07-04 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ https://www.startribune.com/minneapolis-statues-of-washington-pioneers-vandalized/573209481/
  5. ^ George Washington Kneeling in Prayer (Paramus, New Jersey) from Historic Marker Database.
  6. ^ George Washington Kneeling in Prayer Archived 2011-03-13 at the Wayback Machine
  7. ^ George Washington Monument, Cleveland
  8. ^ Ryan, Jim (2020-06-19). "George Washington statue toppled during 22nd consecutive day of Portland protests". The Oregonian. Retrieved 2020-11-27.
  9. ^ KATU Staff (2020-06-19). "George Washington statue in Portland toppled, protests continue". KATU. Retrieved 2020-11-19.
  10. ^ David Williams (2020-06-19). "Protesters tore down a George Washington statue and set a fire on its head". CNN. Retrieved 2020-11-27.
  11. ^ "Texas' Unlucky Sculptor". Texas Co-op Power Magazine. Retrieved 2020-06-19.
  12. ^ Inscription: "El Gobierno y el Pueblo de Venezuela a JORGE WASHINGTON Fundador de la Republica del Norte Erigido en el Centenario del Libertador Simon Bolivar 1883." Source: Frances David Whittemore, George Washington in Sculpture (2005), p. 125.
  13. ^ Venezuela Washington from Flickr.
  14. ^ http://www.ecured.cu/index.php/George_Washington_%28Santo_Domingo,_Cuba%29
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