List of memorials to Anthony Wayne

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

Major-General Anthony Wayne (Pastel by James Sharples, Sr ca. 1795)

Boroughs

Cities

Communities

Counties

Forests and parks

Towns

Townships

Villages

Schools and Colleges

Streets and highways
This flag, presented to Miami chief She-Moc-E-Nish at the Treaty of Greenville, is signed "A.Wayne commander in chief".[4] It is currently owned by the State of Indiana.[5]

Structures and businesses

In transportation
The Anthony Wayne side-wheel passenger and cargo steamship
  • 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.[7]
  • Major General Anthony Wayne, U.S. Army tugboat based at Southampton, UK.

In literature and publications

In products

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.[10][11]
  • 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.[12]
  • 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

References
  1. "Fort Wayne History". City of Fort Wayne. Retrieved August 23, 2017.
  2. "History". Anthony Wayne Local Schools. Retrieved September 8, 2012.
  3. "Chicago Streets" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on July 25, 2011. Retrieved August 15, 2011.
  4. Furlong, William Rea; McCandless, Byron (1981). So Proudly We Hail : The History of the United States Flag. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. p. 160. ISBN 0-87474-448-2.
  5. Anthony Wayne Flag (Greenville Treaty Flag)
  6. "The History of AWS". AWS. Retrieved September 8, 2012.
  7. Lafferty, Mike (June 21, 2007). "Lake Erie searchers locate 157-year-old shipwreck". Columbus Dispatch. Retrieved April 29, 2008.
  8. Kane, Bob; Tom Andrae (1989). Batman & Me. Forestville, California: Eclipse Books. p. 44. ISBN 1-56060-017-9.
  9. Kanigher, Robert; Ross Andru; Mike Exposito (August 1969). "The Bat Witch". World's Finest Comics. DC Comics (186).
  10. Eyman, Scott (2014). John Wayne : the life and legend. New York: Simon & Schuster. p. 48. ISBN 9781439199589.
  11. Sweeney, Camille; Gosfield, Josh (2013). The art of doing : how superachievers do what they do and how they do it so well. New York: Penguin Group. p. 8. ISBN 9781101602812.
  12. Assault on the Wayne (1971)(TV) on IMDb
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