List of memorials to Anthony Wayne explained

This is a list of places and things named for Anthony Wayne, a general in the U.S. Army and a Founding Father of the United States.

Boroughs

Cities

Communities

Wayne, Pennsylvania
Waynedale, Fort Wayne, Indiana
Waynewood, Alexandria, Virginia

Counties

Forests and parks

Wayne National Forest in Ohio
Anthony Wayne Recreation Area, part of Harriman State Park, in New York State
Wayne Square, in Tallahassee, Florida – present location of City Hall and one of 5 public squares established in the city's original plan
Wayne Park in Beaver, Pennsylvania
General Wayne Park Merion, Pennsylvania

Towns

Townships

Wayne Township, Ohio
Wayne Township, Illinois
Wayne Township, Allen County, Indiana
Wayne Township, Marion County Indiana
The former Wayne Township, Montgomery County, Ohio (now the city of Huber Heights)
Wayne Township, New Jersey
Wayne Township, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania
the former Mad River Township and Mad River Township Local School District (now Riverside, Ohio)

Villages

Schools and Colleges

Anthony Wayne School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Anthony Wayne Elementary School in Defiance, Ohio
Anthony Wayne Elementary School in Franklin, Ohio
Wayne Trace High School in Paulding, Ohio
Anthony Wayne Middle School in Wayne, New Jersey
Anthony Wayne High School in Whitehouse, Ohio
Anthony Wayne Local School District, Ohio, whose sports teams are known as the "Fighting Generals"^[2]
General Wayne Elementary School, in Malvern, Pennsylvania
Wayne Central High School in Ontario, New York
Wayne County High School, in Monticello, Kentucky
Wayne Community School District in Corydon, Iowa
Wayne County Community College in Detroit, Michigan
Wayne Elementary School in Erie, Pennsylvania
Wayne High School in Huber Heights, Ohio
Wayne High School in, Fort Wayne, Indiana
Wayne State College in Wayne, Nebraska
Wayne State University in, Detroit
Waynesboro Area Senior High School in, Waynesboro, Pennsylvania
Waynesboro High School in Waynesboro, Virginia
Waynesburg University in Waynesburg, Pennsylvania
Waynesfield-Goshen Schools in, Waynesfield, Ohio
Anthony Wayne Elementary School in Detroit, Michigan
Wayne Trail Elementary School in Maumee, Ohio
Anthony Wayne High School in Whitehouse, Ohio
Anthony Wayne Elementary School in Ambridge, Pennsylvania
Wayne County High School (Waynesboro, Mississippi)
Wayne Memorial High School, Wayne, Michigan
Wayne High School, Wayne, West Virginia
Wayne Middle School, Wayne, West Virginia
Wayne Elementary School, Wayne, West Virginia

Streets and highways

Anthony Street, Celina, Ohio
Anthony Boulevard, Fort Wayne, Indiana
Anthony Wayne Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio
Anthony Wayne Drive, Detroit, Michigan
Anthony Wayne Drive, Baden, Pennsylvania
Anthony Wayne Drive, Chesterbrook, Pennsylvania
Anthony Wayne Drive, Warminster, Pennsylvania
Anthony Wayne Trail, Toledo, Ohio
Anthwyn Road, Merion, Pennsylvania (across from the inn)
Mad Anthony Street, Cincinnati, Ohio
Mad Anthony Street, Millersburg, Ohio
Mad River Road, Hillsboro, Ohio
North Wayne Avenue, Lockland, Ohio
North Wayne Street, West Chester, Pennsylvania
South Wayne Avenue, Fort Wayne, Indiana
South Wayne Avenue, Lockland, Ohio
South Wayne Avenue, Waynesboro, Virginia
South Wayne Street, West Chester, Pennsylvania
Southwest Anthony Wayne Drive, Fort Wayne, Indiana
Wayne Avenue, Ticonderoga, New York
Wayne Avenue, Bronx, New York
Wayne Avenue, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania
Wayne Avenue, Collingdale, Pennsylvania
Wayne Avenue, Chicago, Illinois^[3]
Wayne Avenue, Dayton, Ohio
Wayne Avenue (Rte 112), Stony Point, New York
Wayne Avenue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Wayne Avenue, Greenville, Ohio
Wayne Road, running through (from north to south) the municipalities of; Livonia, Westland, Wayne, and Romulus, Michigan
Wayne Street, Celina, Ohio
Wayne Street, Fort Recovery, Ohio
Wayne Street, Fort Wayne, Indiana
Wayne Street, Toledo, Ohio
Wayne Street, Erie, Pennsylvania
Wayne Street North, South Bend, Indiana
Wayne Street South, South Bend, Indiana
Wayne Trace, Fort Wayne, Indiana
Wayne Trace Road, running from Eaton in Preble County, Ohio, to just outside of Seven Mile in Butler County, Ohio

Structures and businesses

The former Anthony Wayne Bank in Fort Wayne
Former Anthony Wayne Drive-In Movie, Wayne Township, New Jersey
Anthony Wayne Barber Shop in Maumee, Ohio
Anthony Wayne, a campsite at Woodland Trails Scout Reservation in Camden, Ohio
The Anthony Wayne Movie Theater in Wayne, Pennsylvania
Anthony Wayne Recreation Area in Harriman State Park, New York
AWS, formerly Anthony Wayne Rehabilitation Center for the Handicapped and Blind, Inc. in Fort Wayne, Indiana^[4]
Anthony Wayne Suspension Bridge near downtown Toledo, Ohio
Anthony Wayne Terrace Housing Association Baden, Pennsylvania
Mad Anthony Brewing Company, in Fort Wayne, Indiana
Fort Wayne in Fort Wayne, Indiana
Fort Wayne in Detroit, Michigan
The Fort Wayne Mad Ants basketball team of the NBA G League
General Wayne Inn in Merion, Pennsylvania
"Mad Anthony's", a local pub in Waterville, Ohio
Wayne Corporation, defunct school bus manufacturer, originally Wayne Agricultural Works, then Wayne Works
Wayne Hospital in Greenville, Ohio
Anthony Wayne Hotel in Akron, Ohio, demolished in 1996
Anthony Wayne Motel in Yellow Springs, Ohio on US Route 68
General Wayne Inn, Honey Brook, Pennsylvania on US Route 322
Anthony Wayne Hotel in downtown Hamilton, Ohio renovated into the Anthony Wayne Apartments
Hotel Wayne and restaurant in Honesdale, Pennsylvania
Mad Anthony's Bottle Shop & Beer Garden in Waynesville, NC
Wayne Oil Inc. in Fort Recovery, Ohio
Wayne Hose Company No. 1 of the Stony Point, New York fire department

In transportation

The Gen. "Mad" Anthony Wayne, a side-wheel steamboat, sank in April 1850 in Lake Erie while en route from the Toledo, Ohio, area to Buffalo, New York. Out of 93 passengers and crew on board, 38 died. On June 21, 2007, it was announced that the wreck had been discovered by Thomas Kowalczk, an amateur shipwreck hunter.^[5]
Major General Anthony Wayne, U.S. Army tugboat based at Southampton, UK.

In literature and publications

Wayne is mentioned in Donald Barthelme's novel, The King.
Contrary to the popular belief that Bruce Wayne (the real name of the superhero character Batman) was named after John Wayne, comic book writer Bill Finger named Batman's alter ego after Robert the Bruce and Anthony Wayne.^[6] In DC Comics, Bruce Wayne is depicted as General Anthony Wayne's direct descendant, and on one occasion Bruce Wayne, as Batman, traveled back in time and met Anthony Wayne.^[7] Furthermore, the property on which Wayne Manor is built was given to General Wayne for his service during the Revolution. Rumors that Bruce's middle name is "Anthony" have yet to be confirmed by DC Comics.
In F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night (1934), Dick Diver mentions his descent from Mad Anthony Wayne.
Anthony Wayne is one of the main characters in Ann Rinaldi's historical novel, A Ride into Morning.
Mad Anthony Wayne is a character in Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series. He features in An Echo in the Bone and Written in My Own Heart's Blood.

In products

Mad Anthony Ale (Mad Anthony's APA), an American Pale Ale (APA) brewed by the Erie Brewing Company in Erie, Pennsylvania.

Onscreen

Actor Marion Morrison was initially given the stage name of Anthony Wayne, after the general, by Fox Studio head Winfield Sheenan and Raoul Walsh, who directed The Big Trail (1930), but Fox Studios changed it to John Wayne instead, saying "Anthony" sounded "too Italian". John Wayne was leading man in 142 of his 153 movies, more than any other actor in history.^[8] ^[9]
In "Guy Walks Into a Psychiatrist's Office...", the Season Two premiere of The Sopranos, the character Dr. Jennifer Melfi is shown seeing patients at the "Anthony Wayne Motel" in Wayne, New Jersey, while on the lam, in fear for her life.
The 1971 made-for-TV movie Assault on the Wayne, starring Leonard Nimoy, takes place on board the submarine U.S.S. Anthony Wayne.
In Boardwalk Empire, S3E09, antagonist Gyp Rosetti admires a glass encased colonial hat from, as he says, "Mad Anthony Wayne". Rosetti later steals this hat at the end of the episode and wears it as he watches over his illegal alcohol business.

In sculpture

General Anthony Wayne relief, by James Edward Kelly in Tryon, North Carolina, 1896
The Wayne County Building in Detroit, Michigan, features a pediment by Edward Wagner that depicts an equestrian Wayne, c. 1900
Equestrian statue by Henry Kirke Bush-Brown at Valley Forge, 1908
Anthony Wayne Monument by George Etienne Ganiere, Fort Wayne, Indiana, 1918
Battle of Fallen Timbers Monument also known as the Anthony Wayne Monument, by Bruce Saville, Maumee, Ohio, 1929
Equestrian statue by John Gregory, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1937

Notes and References

Web site: Fort Wayne History . City of Fort Wayne . August 23, 2017.
Web site: History. Anthony Wayne Local Schools. September 8, 2012.
Web site: Chicago Streets. August 15, 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110725165215/http://www.chsmedia.org/househistory/nameChanges/start.pdf. July 25, 2011 . live.
Web site: The History of AWS. AWS. September 8, 2012.
News: Mike . Lafferty . Lake Erie searchers locate 157-year-old shipwreck . Columbus Dispatch . June 21, 2007 . April 29, 2008.
Book: Kane, Bob . Tom Andrae . Batman & Me . . . 1989 . 1-56060-017-9 . 44.
Robert . Kanigher . Ross Andru . Mike Exposito . The Bat Witch . . . 186 . August 1969.
Book: Eyman, Scott. John Wayne : the life and legend. Simon & Schuster. 2014. 9781439199589. New York. 48.
Book: Sweeney . Camille . Gosfield . Josh . 2013 . The art of doing : how superachievers do what they do and how they do it so well . registration . New York . Penguin Group . 8 . 9781101602812.