Not where I am right now, but the neighborhood next to mine has a lot of presidential streets. There's JFK blvd, Harry Truman st, and Thomas Jefferson, George Bush, Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Tyler, Fillmore, Pierce, Coolidge, Reagan, Clinton, Carter, and even Nixon drives (I had to go on google maps to see all of them, cuz there's so many that I don't remember all of them)
The capital city of Liberia was named after James Monroe which is Monrovia. Liberia capital city it was the only capital city outside of the United State that was named after an American President beside Washington D.C. Monrovia, Liberia 🇱🇷
Liberia is one of the lesser known US-centric countries (despite being in Africa). It’s entire existence is due to the US and its past relations with African/black people. Even its flag is a direct attribution towards the US. It was founded by African Americans after they were essentially shipped back as part of the US’ efforts towards racial segregation and thinking that black people (both free and formerly enslaved) would be better off with “their own kind”. Liberia’s history is really cool and should really be talked about more as the least known country of the English-speaking world
The capital city of Liberia was named after James Monroe which is Monrovia. Liberia capital city it was the only capital city outside of the United State that was named after an American President beside Washington D.C. Monrovia, Liberia 🇱🇷
@@johnnyappleseed4930 The region where Clevelândia is located was being claimed by Argentina. Both countries then agreed to an arbitration by the USA in order to solve the land dispute. Grover Cleveland decided in favor of Brazil, so the city decided to pay him hommage by changing its name.
Although there are very few places in the US named after William Howard Taft, there are actually a few very well known places here in the Philippines named after him like Taft Avenue (a main avenue in Metro Manila with a renowned train station, Taft Avenue station) and a town in the southern Philippines. This is because he once served as a Governor-General of the Philippines during the Commonwealth Era (after the Spanish occupation).
And they were kind of cut, so it didmt achieve any kind of mocking effect, like "So poor old Milard Filmore, So poor old Milard Filmore, blablablablabla
Fun fact: Utah really really wanted to be a state, so they named the county and town, which was briefly the territorial capital, after the president at the time, Millard Fillmore, hoping it would help them become a state. It didn't.
0:10 Love the fact you included the Hall of Presidents at Disney World. It was Walt’s dream to have an attraction that had an animatronic of every president. He didn’t get to see it open but I’m sure he would’ve been proud But he probably wouldn’t like the fact people go to the show to take a nap in the A/C
The Northwest Leg of Cook County Illinois (Chicago and many of it's suburbs, huge county) famously fought to break off as it's own Lincoln County. The effort was not successful.
There are quite a few places named after presidents where I grew up. There is a middle school named after JFK. One street was renamed to "President Barack Obama". A nearby highway is called the Ronald Reagan Highway. Not to mention, there's a Trump golf course.
Topeka, KS has a street named for Millard Fillmore. It has many streets named after presidents, but NOT Franklin Pierce. Topeka was a Free State/abolitionist town, and Pierce was pro-slavery, so they skipped him in naming the streets. There is also the Roosevelt National Forest in Northern Colorado, named after T.R. It's a beautiful area.
There already IS a place named after Joe Biden, even though he's 2 months away from the Oval Office. Back in 2011, Wilmington, Delaware (Biden's hometown) renamed their train station in honor of him, since he would commute to and from Washington from the station every day as a congressman
As an Australian, he took the train! Was my first reaction to this titbit of news. Our like to take private planes and cars instead of taxis or public transport! I also liked that he did this and did talk to the public when he was aboard. One of the news stations coincidently took the train with him and found him really approachable.
I am interested in trains _and_ politics, and I didn't know that! Makes sense that the Delawarean who likes to take the Amtrak would have an Amtrak station in Delaware named after him: the Joseph R. Biden, Jr., Railroad Station. This renaming was back when he was vice-president, and now, it seems that Wilmington station is early in being named after what every reliable source calls the 46th president (or 45th, if you don't count Cleveland twice). For more information: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilmington_station_(Delaware)
@@Sovereignty3 Everything on the east coast is pretty close together, and the traffic is awful, I'd take the train too. No one should have to endure the DC beltway at rush hour.
@@n.m.8802 Yep! Not only that, but the Republican Party seems to be playing itself with the whole claim that they are victims of voting fraud, and every other conspiracy theory they have proposed! In fighting against the results of the 2020 presidential election when it turned against him, Trump is appearing like someone who is either trying to overthrow the Constitution or just someone who is trying to advertise his fundraiser with a "legal" campaign! Not only that, but conspiracy theories about government plots actually _discourage_ people from voting because they think their vote doesn't count! Let those sink in for a second!
President Fillmore’s distant nephew or cousin (I don’t remember which) Charles, with his wife Myrtle, founded the Unity movement in the late 1800s, so there are probably places in the Kansas City, Missouri are named after him. The Association of Unity Churches south of Kansas City got its own town incorporated as Unity Village. There are buildings there named for the couple.
Washington and Jefferson seem like the most common county names. Just googled it and after them is Franklin. Franklin wasn't a president but he's basically the patron saint of Pennsylvania.
This is a cool topic! Fun fact: there are a lot of mountains named after presidents in New Hampshire, including the famous Presidential Range, which includes Mts. Washington (highest mt in the northeastern US), Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Eisenhower, and Pierce. There's also a Jackson there but it was apparently not named after the president, and there *was* a Clinton that got renamed to Pierce before there was a President Clinton. There's also a Mt. Lincoln, Mt. Garfield, and Mt. Cleveland elsewhere in the state. Alas, there is no Mt. Fillmore...anywhere, as far as I can tell. Also....I'm pretttttttty sure that Nixon is no longer the most divisive president in history....
@@mrbyzantine0528 brilliant idea! Unfortunately the most recent sewage treatment plant was named after John Oliver but maybe we can find a few more to name after Nixon.
@@ewestner *“If we can’t come up with a clever rebuttal to an entire town naming a sewage treatment plant after me, might as well copy what they’re doing! It’s so original!”*
Some observations from a lifelong Southern California resident: There's a town in Ventura County (next door to Los Angeles County) called Fillmore. My grandma lived there when I was a kid, so I knew about the town before I knew about the president. I couldn't find conclusive evidence of it being named after the president, though. Garfield Avenue is a major north-south road running from roughly Pasadena to Long Beach. After Garfield's assassination, his widow lived in South Pasadena; her house is now a historic landmark. For a while, recording artist and producer Joe Henry (who is Madonna's brother-in-law) lived there and had a recording studio in the basement. Less noteworthy, but something I noted during my childhood, were three parallel residential streets in Altadena named Roosevelt, Harding, and Coolidge. No idea why it's just those three. Nothing around them continues the presidential naming convention. I was surprised during a recent drive to the western side of L.A. when I stumbled across an Obama Boulevard. Turns out it was only just named that in 2019, and previously it was named Rodeo Road, which presumably led to a lot of confusion with the famous Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills. I went to Occidental College, which is where Obama went for two years before transferring to Columbia. They've been proudly broadcasting this fact since he first became a Senator in 2004, but thus far I don't know if they've actually named a building after him. I don't think the state of Hawaii has formally named anything after him yet, either.
Every other building at my school is named after a President, you got Washington Hall for politics classes, Tyler Hall for economics, Monroe Hall the freshman dorm, Jefferson Hall the sophomore dorm, and a bunch of others
That’s because there’s only two airports in NYC, JFK is international, and LaGuardia is not international. So he can’t fly into LaGuardia from England. But he can’t fly into Newark airport in New Jersey
One of our Prime Ministers, Lester B. Pearson, lends his name to the largest airport in Toronto - so, colloquially 'Pearson' refers to the airport - not the person. Except someone in a small town called 'Pearson' got it mistaken - so now, an airline is paying for a hockey rink in a small town to make up for the confusion..
Lester B Pearson also has the largest english school board in montreal named after him not exactly a place but several schools and the administration building of the school board bear his name
It was nice to see a shout-out to the Gerald R Ford International Airport in Grand Rapids Michigan. My opinions of the person aside, the place is somewhat cozy, if sparse. I'm proud to have been part of its maintenance and renovation, hoping to make it a pleasant place to wait for a flight, visit, or come home to. (As much as any airport can reasonably expected to be pleasant, that is. We're not miracle workers.)
We'll probably see a Joe Biden Plaza in Ireland soon due to his roots in Counties Mayo and Louth! Ireland's new longest bridge is named after the mother of John F Kennedy. Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Bridge. Its in New Ross on the Kilkenny/Wexford border.
How Biden conducts his foreign policy will probably have a lot to do with where he gets places named after him. As I mentioned in another comment, Kennedy has lots of monuments in Latin America due to his economic development programs there (and especially in Costa Rica since he helped provide relief to that country after an earthquake). In the few years since he left office, George W. Bush has already had many monuments in Africa in recognition of his AIDS relief efforts there.
When the dam across the Colorado River was started, it was called Hoover Dam, but when FDR took over, he renamed it Boulder Dam. After he died, the name Hoover Dam was restored. Another part of Hoover’s legacy was in the tent cities erected by working men traveling to find jobs during the Depression. Since the only way they could afford to travel was by illegally hopping freight trains, they pitched their tents as close as possible to freight train lines as possible, and because they blamed Hoover for the Depression, the public called these tent cities Hoovervilles. Note: there are three unrelated men named Hoover whose names are big in American (and in one case, British) pop culture: the first and longest serving head of the FBI, whose power and paranoia shaped American politics as well as criminal justice fir decades, J. Edgar Hoover; President Herbert Hoover; and the inventor of the vacuum cleaner, whose name was used as a brand name of the vacuum cleaners made by his company. Many Americans get the first two of these confused, which may be why we don’t call vacuum cleaners “Hoovers.”
A couple fun facts from a Massachusite: "Quincey" is actually pronounced "Quinzie," with the "c" making a "z" sound. In addition to Quincey, MA, there's also Quincey Market in Boston which is, funnily enough, also NOT named for John Quincey Adams, but instead Mayor Josiah Quincey.
True that, but they are all spelled Quincy, no E. Also, as long as we're on the topic of pronunciation, Potomac is pronounced "po-TOE-mack." Just FYI, Patrick. :)
Former Connecticuter I, I came to make this point too but I've become redundant, apparently. That was the pronunciation we used in school when I was growing up. It was the pronunciation the family and the location used. it is historically correct, and does not extend outside of the New England area, to the best of my knowledge. Hence, the fictitious corner is Quin-see.
@@ocbee6175 you're obviously not from the Boston area. Everyone here pronounces it that way unless they are a transplant who doesn't pay attention to how people pronounce stuff.
In downtown Santiago, Chile, there's a small diner called "La Picá de Clinton" (Clinton's Place), because Clinton himself stopped there to buy a drink, against all protocol, when he visited our country in 1998. We also have an avenue named after Kennedy, that is very near my house, actually.
There are many places in the eastern United States named "Lincoln" that were founded and named BEFORE The 16th president's election in 1860. Many of those are named after general Benjamin Lincoln, an American revolutionary war leader and distant relative of the latter somewhat more famous president Lincoln.
You could have mentioned the previous name of Mount Denali (the highest point in North America) which was, until 2016, named after William McKInley. It was named Mount McKinley after his assassination, but it has since been renamed to Mount Denali for more Inuit and Native American representation.
In Belgrade, Serbia, 2 of the most central streets are named by George Washington and Woodrow WIlson and the whole blocks are non-officialy named by that
In Indonesia, there's a fried rice stall called "Nasi Goreng Obama" since it's located right in front of a school where Obama used to study. I guess you can call that a place?
Fillmore actually has a strong presence in Western NY. There's a Fillmore, NY. East Aurora, NY is where his house is, and he was buried in Buffalo NY. Not a well known president, but he is around
I live in Harrison, Tennessee which is named for one of the 2 Harrison presidents and its in Hamilton County. While not a president, he's still one of the nation's founding fathers.
Kansas City, MO has Truman Road. It passes eastward out of town and becomes the like-named road in his hometown of Independence, where it runs in front of his house.
For John Quincy Adams, there's a small city in western Illinois called Quincy, the county seat of Adams County. The city and the county were both named after John Quincy Adams when he was just starting as President.
I lived near grant's farm, named for ulysses. It has buffalo, horses, deer, etc.... The petting zoo serves beer. Pretty good time and the parking lot is almost never full. Edit: it's on land his father in law gave him and his wife. Driving by at night you are really likely to see mist and fog. Scenic.
-JFK: *is Catholic ...Ireland names a park after him! -Barrack Obama: has Irish relatives ...Ireland builds him a plaza! -Joe Biden: “anything to say to the BBC?” ,(JB)”IM IRISH!” ......You can expect a statue to be built soon
My US history teacher gave us a pop quiz one day and it was one question: "Name the two country capitals named after U.S. Presidents." He said that if you get the obvious one you're smarter than him, because apparently he knew Monrovia instantly lmao. I see some of these comments have already beat me to this anyway...
Millard Fillmore was also the president of my alma mater, SUNY Buffalo, definitely a building named after him there. There is also a street that bears his name in my Brooklyn neighborhood, Fillmore Avenue. I also have a nearby night school named for John Madison.
There's a river in Brazil named Rio Roosevelt (sometimes Rio Teodoro) since TR was part of an expedition that explored it and he nearly died from an infection there.
as a point of interest, there could've been another bit of name-based legacy to Jefferson--it was once proposed that there be a state of Jefferson, which i seem to remember had a few different hypothetical locations but the most famous one would have been made from parts of northern California and southern Oregon and therefore would've been wedged between the two as a fourth West Coast state
Lol, it made me laugh when you said "but is there anywhere named after Millard Fillmore", because the hospital I was born in is named after him (there are actually two different hospitals in Buffalo, NY named after him, Gates and Suburban, however Gates recently closed)
Being native to Los Angeles, there are so many places, streets , schools, hotels, etc that are name after presidents. in the San Fernando Valley suburban area of Woodland Hills called Taft High school, In East LA, there are Garfield and Roosevelt High ( Movie fact, the movie "Stand and Deliver" With Edward James Olmos who played high school teacher Jaime Escalante who inspired many of his students to stay in school and not drop out was filmed between Garfield and Roosevelt High schools . East LA is predominately Hispanic. Any way "Stand and Deliver " is a great movie and if you get a chance to watch it, do), There's the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood that was the home of the first few Academy Awards ceremonies in the 20's and 30's . Two years ago, A street in Los Angeles was renamed Barack Obama Blvd, There are high schools named after Thomas Jefferson and George Washington . Of course many othwr streets here in Los Angeles are named after Presidents Adams, Lincoln , Washington and Jefferson. In Dallas,Tx, there are two tollways name for both president Bushes and there's an expressway named for Lyndon B,. Johnson in Dallas , all three were from Texas. There's a hospital named for LBJ in Houston. The George Washington Bridge and Lincoln Tunnel are transportation thorough fares in New York City
I live in Monrovia, Liberia and grew up on Bushrod Island, named of course, after Bushrod Washington. My son was born at the JFK Medical Center, located on Tubman Boulevard, named after a cousin of Harriet Tubman who served as Liberia's President for 27 years. Our neighborhood, Caldwell is between New Georgia and Louisiana and is located on the St. Paul River. Living in Liberia is a course in US Civics.
There is a US Grant High School in OKC and there is a McKinleyville in Humboldt County, CA. And for LBJ--two things: Interstate 635, in Dallas, named the LBJ Freeway and he was from Johnson City, TX, but this was named for his great uncle, James Polk Johnson.
I am from New Hampshire, USA and here we have a Washington, NH as well as Jefferson, Lincoln, Monroe, Madison and Jackson. Also, we have The Presidential Range of the Appalachian Mountains which contains: Mt Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Monroe, Madison, Pierce and Eisenhower.
To hell with Franklin Pierce not being known. There's Pierce County in Washington, where I was born. And that's not some backwoods area either. It's part of the Seattle-Tacoma Metropolitan area and the entirety of Mt. Rainer is located in it
I'm watching from Madison County, Nebraska (the county is named indirectly for President Madison because it was named after Madison, Wisconsin), immediately north of here is Pierce County. Our state also has Adams County, Arthur County, Garfield County, Grant County, Hayes County, Lincoln County (our capitol is in Lancaster County), Polk County, we also have Washington County. There was a very short-lived Johnson County that was formed in 1855 and dissolved in 1856 but this was in Nebraska Territory. There are several towns named after Presidents. You mentioned our capitol city, Lincoln.
The most important item for a place to be named for a president, is how fast is the country growing at the time and shortly after. A new state may get you a county named for you, but counties don't usually change their names for later presidents.
I've been shopping at Kalustyan's for decades, and all the time I had no idea that that little building hosted a presidential oath of office. In case you're wondering why a president would be sworn in in NYC, it's because Chester Arthur became president upon the assassination of James Garfield in 1881. Other presidential oaths outside of Washington: T. Roosevelt in Buffalo, NY in 1901, Calvin Coolidge in Plymouth Notch, Vt in 1923 and Lyndon Johnson aboard Air Force One on the tarmac in Dallas in 1963.
Each President has a library built and named after them after they come out of office. Also I don't know if u have neds declassified in the UK but the school in the show is named after polk
The Taft Broadcasting Company (1939-1999), was a media conglomerate specializing in radio and television stations, was founded in 1939 by Charles Phelps Taft, the brother of president William Howard Taft. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taft_Broadcasting
Wilson also has this in Albania which you didn't mention: During the interbellum era Shëngjin City was named Wilson Today there is Wilson Square in Tirana and his statue
Is anyone watching from a presidentially named place?
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Not where I am right now, but the neighborhood next to mine has a lot of presidential streets. There's JFK blvd, Harry Truman st, and Thomas Jefferson, George Bush, Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Tyler, Fillmore, Pierce, Coolidge, Reagan, Clinton, Carter, and even Nixon drives (I had to go on google maps to see all of them, cuz there's so many that I don't remember all of them)
Not living there, but in Kraków, Poland, there is a square named after Ronald Reagan.
Watching from Washington state!
Yes, Presidente Hayes in Paraguay
I’m surprised you didn’t bring up Liberia’s capital, Monrovia, named after James Monroe
The capital city of Liberia was named after James Monroe which is Monrovia. Liberia capital city it was the only capital city outside of the United State that was named after an American President beside Washington D.C. Monrovia, Liberia 🇱🇷
@@cartier2312 yeah he kinda just said that..
@@cartier2312 thank you for repeating the fact back to him
Liberia is one of the lesser known US-centric countries (despite being in Africa). It’s entire existence is due to the US and its past relations with African/black people. Even its flag is a direct attribution towards the US. It was founded by African Americans after they were essentially shipped back as part of the US’ efforts towards racial segregation and thinking that black people (both free and formerly enslaved) would be better off with “their own kind”. Liberia’s history is really cool and should really be talked about more as the least known country of the English-speaking world
Well, actually the only capital outside the US named after a US president. Unless DC is outside the US
I wonder if the volcano erupted on two non-consecutive occasions.
*genius!*
All eruptions would be non-consecutive, as there would have to be a time period where it wasn't erupting.
@@sdspivey Shush you... enjoy the joke. We all know it's not a new eruption unless it follows a period of inactivity since the previous eruption.
@@CorwinAlexander It’s not a problem, it’s still funny
I know there’s a welcome center in Delaware named the Biden Welcome Center. This was probably a legacy left from his Vice Presidency.
Being the senator from there since forever mattered more. He has an Amtrak station named after him too.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_things_named_after_Joe_Biden
He has a planet named after him
Ok, but this is about presidents
Trump tower is named after Trump before his presidency
You could've mention Monrovia, Liberia, the only national capital besides Washington DC to be named after a US president (James Monroe in this case)
Yeah, I was shocked he didn’t mention that
I was going to mention this. This is a major omission
The capital city of Liberia was named after James Monroe which is Monrovia. Liberia capital city it was the only capital city outside of the United State that was named after an American President beside Washington D.C. Monrovia, Liberia 🇱🇷
It's true but the whole Liberia situation is just sad and depressing. More worth its own vodeo tbh.
There is also a Monrovia in California
There is actually a town in Washington state named George.
That’s hilarious
George, Washington
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George,_Washington
Is there anything there other than the Gorge Amphitheater?
I'm a Washington State resident and that's all even I know about it.
And Martha, WA too!!
No Monrovia Liberia or Madison Wisconsin? Shocked. Still informative
Or Quincy, Illinois in Adams county.
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Thanks Kim. A!so grants farm in st Louis(his old house and estate)
In Wisconsin. We have a county called
Adams, jackson, Monroe, Grant, Polk, Pierce, Lincoln, Jefferson, and Washington,
The capital is named Madison
or Barack Obama Blvd in florida
The town of Clevelândia, in Paraná state, Brazil, is also named after Grover Cleveland.
Don't forget about Presidente Kennedy, Espírito Santo. Named after JFK following his assassination.
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@@johnnyappleseed4930 The region where Clevelândia is located was being claimed by Argentina. Both countries then agreed to an arbitration by the USA in order to solve the land dispute. Grover Cleveland decided in favor of Brazil, so the city decided to pay him hommage by changing its name.
@@sohopedeco ahhh. I see thanks
Although there are very few places in the US named after William Howard Taft, there are actually a few very well known places here in the Philippines named after him like Taft Avenue (a main avenue in Metro Manila with a renowned train station, Taft Avenue station) and a town in the southern Philippines. This is because he once served as a Governor-General of the Philippines during the Commonwealth Era (after the Spanish occupation).
Also, the first alpine ski trail cut in the United States was named after Taft. "Taft Slalom" at Cannon Mountain, New Hampshire.
There are also several places named after him in Cincinnati, Ohio. Including an art museum and a major road!
My University was named after him
Also Roosevelt Station and Roosevelt Avenue from FDR
Taft, Eastern Samar
5:47 It says “so even poor old Milard Fillmore” twice.
And they were kind of cut, so it didmt achieve any kind of mocking effect, like "So poor old Milard Filmore, So poor old Milard Filmore, blablablablabla
Probably different takes that he forgot to cut
I thought he had speak mistake.
@@danielclasen809 millard*
Fun fact: Utah really really wanted to be a state, so they named the county and town, which was briefly the territorial capital, after the president at the time, Millard Fillmore, hoping it would help them become a state. It didn't.
Dude really mentioned Kennedy and LBJ w/o the space centers
0:10 Love the fact you included the Hall of Presidents at Disney World. It was Walt’s dream to have an attraction that had an animatronic of every president. He didn’t get to see it open but I’m sure he would’ve been proud
But he probably wouldn’t like the fact people go to the show to take a nap in the A/C
ive never been to disney world but i always go to lincoln first at disneyland, and sometimes also last before leaving.
I seriously want to visit the Hall.
At least they may learn some history while they sleep.
They tried to name a state “Lincoln” so many times it is appalling and to some extent funny.
Jefferson and Franklin too
Imagine a state called Bush... Actually half of Australia is called this way.
@@ArnoldLokman Only half?
state if jefferson flags and buildings are painted yellow and green, on the southernwest border of oregon.
The Northwest Leg of Cook County Illinois (Chicago and many of it's suburbs, huge county) famously fought to break off as it's own Lincoln County. The effort was not successful.
I can't believe you didn't name McKinley High School in Buffalo, which was built at the same spot William McKinley was assassinated
There are quite a few places named after presidents where I grew up. There is a middle school named after JFK. One street was renamed to "President Barack Obama". A nearby highway is called the Ronald Reagan Highway. Not to mention, there's a Trump golf course.
Imagine if Trump went to the golf course to play golf for the New Year...
I seen enough Zyphon comments on random channels and I can tell we have the same taste.
In 1964, Idlewild Airport was renamed after President John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
Topeka, KS has a street named for Millard Fillmore. It has many streets named after presidents, but NOT Franklin Pierce. Topeka was a Free State/abolitionist town, and Pierce was pro-slavery, so they skipped him in naming the streets.
There is also the Roosevelt National Forest in Northern Colorado, named after T.R. It's a beautiful area.
There already IS a place named after Joe Biden, even though he's 2 months away from the Oval Office.
Back in 2011, Wilmington, Delaware (Biden's hometown) renamed their train station in honor of him, since he would commute to and from Washington from the station every day as a congressman
As an Australian, he took the train! Was my first reaction to this titbit of news.
Our like to take private planes and cars instead of taxis or public transport!
I also liked that he did this and did talk to the public when he was aboard.
One of the news stations coincidently took the train with him and found him really approachable.
I am interested in trains _and_ politics, and I didn't know that! Makes sense that the Delawarean who likes to take the Amtrak would have an Amtrak station in Delaware named after him: the Joseph R. Biden, Jr., Railroad Station. This renaming was back when he was vice-president, and now, it seems that Wilmington station is early in being named after what every reliable source calls the 46th president (or 45th, if you don't count Cleveland twice). For more information: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilmington_station_(Delaware)
Biden is not going to be the next US president.
@@Sovereignty3 Everything on the east coast is pretty close together, and the traffic is awful, I'd take the train too. No one should have to endure the DC beltway at rush hour.
@@n.m.8802 Yep! Not only that, but the Republican Party seems to be playing itself with the whole claim that they are victims of voting fraud, and every other conspiracy theory they have proposed! In fighting against the results of the 2020 presidential election when it turned against him, Trump is appearing like someone who is either trying to overthrow the Constitution or just someone who is trying to advertise his fundraiser with a "legal" campaign! Not only that, but conspiracy theories about government plots actually _discourage_ people from voting because they think their vote doesn't count! Let those sink in for a second!
Fun fact: John Taylor has a living grandson.
Who’s John Taylor?
Tyler*
WOW! Former President James Taylor!
John Tyler
So does Trump
I deserve a state named after me. But I thank Rockstar games for making that possibility.
@Adolf Hitler it’s called HELL 😂😂😂
@Adolf Hitler shitler am I gonna have to get Stalin to beat you up again?
Disappointed that you didn't mention Madison, Wisconsin. Literally the state capital.
I was also surprised that he didn't mention Mt. McKinley.
@@dulcimerrafi The mountain regained it's indigenous name of Denali in 2015.
@@mrbyzantine0528 I forgot that.
Quincy, illinois which is literally located in Adams county.
I feel madison square garden is more popular
In Chicago we call Interstate 290 “The Eisenhower.”
The president under who the Interstate Highway Act was passed.
And my bad for commenting before watching ha.
Millard Fillmore has a hospital named for him in Buffalo NY. And James Monroe is the namesake of the capital of Liberia.
President Fillmore’s distant nephew or cousin (I don’t remember which) Charles, with his wife Myrtle, founded the Unity movement in the late 1800s, so there are probably places in the Kansas City, Missouri are named after him. The Association of Unity Churches south of Kansas City got its own town incorporated as Unity Village. There are buildings there named for the couple.
Van buren is Dutch for "belongs to neighbours". Makes perfect sense.
@John Daniels Maybe his parents adopted him from the neighbours
You forgot.Trump Heights that was built in the Golan after Trump recognized it as part of Israel :)
That and there's a lake named after him lol. The residents don't like to talk about it
@@astradon why not? what he did for Israel is just one of the many great things he did overseas
The old coastal road on the southern Golden Horn in Istanbul is named, curiously, after JFK.
Washington and Jefferson seem like the most common county names.
Just googled it and after them is Franklin.
Franklin wasn't a president but he's basically the patron saint of Pennsylvania.
He is the ultimate American Renaissance person, seems to have done a lot of everything like Jefferson.
Damn Franklin, taking that title away from William Penn.
There were several attempts to make states named Jefferson and Lincoln
There was a proposed state of Franklin. It is presently a part of eastern Tennessee. BTW, we have a Franklin County in Nebraska.
What Franklin born, raised, and went to school in Boston, Massachusetts?
*talks about James Madison* me: oh, cool Madison, Wisconsin *Madison square in New York City* me: why does everyone forget about me, I mean Wisconsin!
Because Madison Square (4 sides - 4th President) Garden.
I was really expecting him to say Mt. McKinley, which has since been renamed to Denali, but it's still the tallest mountain in North America
This is a cool topic! Fun fact: there are a lot of mountains named after presidents in New Hampshire, including the famous Presidential Range, which includes Mts. Washington (highest mt in the northeastern US), Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Eisenhower, and Pierce. There's also a Jackson there but it was apparently not named after the president, and there *was* a Clinton that got renamed to Pierce before there was a President Clinton. There's also a Mt. Lincoln, Mt. Garfield, and Mt. Cleveland elsewhere in the state. Alas, there is no Mt. Fillmore...anywhere, as far as I can tell.
Also....I'm pretttttttty sure that Nixon is no longer the most divisive president in history....
What if we just start naming random stuff after Nixon to try and out-strip Trump's name tally?
@@mrbyzantine0528 brilliant idea! Unfortunately the most recent sewage treatment plant was named after John Oliver but maybe we can find a few more to name after Nixon.
@@ewestner *“If we can’t come up with a clever rebuttal to an entire town naming a sewage treatment plant after me, might as well copy what they’re doing! It’s so original!”*
Potomac is pronounced with stress put on the second "o" in the middle syllable: "puh-TOH-muhk"
Some observations from a lifelong Southern California resident:
There's a town in Ventura County (next door to Los Angeles County) called Fillmore. My grandma lived there when I was a kid, so I knew about the town before I knew about the president. I couldn't find conclusive evidence of it being named after the president, though.
Garfield Avenue is a major north-south road running from roughly Pasadena to Long Beach. After Garfield's assassination, his widow lived in South Pasadena; her house is now a historic landmark. For a while, recording artist and producer Joe Henry (who is Madonna's brother-in-law) lived there and had a recording studio in the basement.
Less noteworthy, but something I noted during my childhood, were three parallel residential streets in Altadena named Roosevelt, Harding, and Coolidge. No idea why it's just those three. Nothing around them continues the presidential naming convention.
I was surprised during a recent drive to the western side of L.A. when I stumbled across an Obama Boulevard. Turns out it was only just named that in 2019, and previously it was named Rodeo Road, which presumably led to a lot of confusion with the famous Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills.
I went to Occidental College, which is where Obama went for two years before transferring to Columbia. They've been proudly broadcasting this fact since he first became a Senator in 2004, but thus far I don't know if they've actually named a building after him. I don't think the state of Hawaii has formally named anything after him yet, either.
Every other building at my school is named after a President, you got Washington Hall for politics classes, Tyler Hall for economics, Monroe Hall the freshman dorm, Jefferson Hall the sophomore dorm, and a bunch of others
You know that NYC is a big city when some British guy jas a preferred NYC airport
That’s because there’s only two airports in NYC, JFK is international, and LaGuardia is not international. So he can’t fly into LaGuardia from England.
But he can’t fly into Newark airport in New Jersey
One of our Prime Ministers, Lester B. Pearson, lends his name to the largest airport in Toronto - so, colloquially 'Pearson' refers to the airport - not the person. Except someone in a small town called 'Pearson' got it mistaken - so now, an airline is paying for a hockey rink in a small town to make up for the confusion..
Lester B Pearson also has the largest english school board in montreal named after him not exactly a place but several schools and the administration building of the school board bear his name
In Minneapolis, there are streets named after all the presidents up to FDR, and then there's also a Kennedy Street.
It was nice to see a shout-out to the Gerald R Ford International Airport in Grand Rapids Michigan. My opinions of the person aside, the place is somewhat cozy, if sparse. I'm proud to have been part of its maintenance and renovation, hoping to make it a pleasant place to wait for a flight, visit, or come home to. (As much as any airport can reasonably expected to be pleasant, that is. We're not miracle workers.)
We'll probably see a Joe Biden Plaza in Ireland soon due to his roots in Counties Mayo and Louth!
Ireland's new longest bridge is named after the mother of John F Kennedy. Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Bridge. Its in New Ross on the Kilkenny/Wexford border.
ooh, me plaza
So I guess we're just Biden our time waiting?
How Biden conducts his foreign policy will probably have a lot to do with where he gets places named after him. As I mentioned in another comment, Kennedy has lots of monuments in Latin America due to his economic development programs there (and especially in Costa Rica since he helped provide relief to that country after an earthquake). In the few years since he left office, George W. Bush has already had many monuments in Africa in recognition of his AIDS relief efforts there.
William Howard Taft: There is also a city in California called Taft.
Fun fact, there's a Herbert Hoover School in Germany
Really? Cool
When the dam across the Colorado River was started, it was called Hoover Dam, but when FDR took over, he renamed it Boulder Dam. After he died, the name Hoover Dam was restored. Another part of Hoover’s legacy was in the tent cities erected by working men traveling to find jobs during the Depression. Since the only way they could afford to travel was by illegally hopping freight trains, they pitched their tents as close as possible to freight train lines as possible, and because they blamed Hoover for the Depression, the public called these tent cities Hoovervilles.
Note: there are three unrelated men named Hoover whose names are big in American (and in one case, British) pop culture: the first and longest serving head of the FBI, whose power and paranoia shaped American politics as well as criminal justice fir decades, J. Edgar Hoover; President Herbert Hoover; and the inventor of the vacuum cleaner, whose name was used as a brand name of the vacuum cleaners made by his company. Many Americans get the first two of these confused, which may be why we don’t call vacuum cleaners “Hoovers.”
A couple fun facts from a Massachusite: "Quincey" is actually pronounced "Quinzie," with the "c" making a "z" sound. In addition to Quincey, MA, there's also Quincey Market in Boston which is, funnily enough, also NOT named for John Quincey Adams, but instead Mayor Josiah Quincey.
True that, but they are all spelled Quincy, no E. Also, as long as we're on the topic of pronunciation, Potomac is pronounced "po-TOE-mack." Just FYI, Patrick. :)
Former Connecticuter I, I came to make this point too but I've become redundant, apparently. That was the pronunciation we used in school when I was growing up. It was the pronunciation the family and the location used. it is historically correct, and does not extend outside of the New England area, to the best of my knowledge. Hence, the fictitious corner is Quin-see.
In Illinois we have a city called Quincy, which is conviently located in Adams county.
No? I have never heard anyone pronounce it Quinzy.
@@ocbee6175 you're obviously not from the Boston area. Everyone here pronounces it that way unless they are a transplant who doesn't pay attention to how people pronounce stuff.
In downtown Santiago, Chile, there's a small diner called "La Picá de Clinton" (Clinton's Place), because Clinton himself stopped there to buy a drink, against all protocol, when he visited our country in 1998.
We also have an avenue named after Kennedy, that is very near my house, actually.
That "I know him" joke was awesome hahah
Funny, when I saw the header for this video, even before watching it, I thought "I wonder if he'll find a place named after Millard Filmore..."
5:47 glitch in the matrix?
I have lived in Connecticut my whole life and had no idea Monroe was named for, well, Monroe!
There was a Mount McKinley in Alaska (the highest peak in North America), but the name was officially changed to Denali.
There are many places in the eastern United States named "Lincoln" that were founded and named BEFORE The 16th president's election in 1860. Many of those are named after general Benjamin Lincoln, an American revolutionary war leader and distant relative of the latter somewhat more famous president Lincoln.
Wasn’t his family name derived from a town in England called Lincoln?
You could have mentioned the previous name of Mount Denali (the highest point in North America) which was, until 2016, named after William McKInley. It was named Mount McKinley after his assassination, but it has since been renamed to Mount Denali for more Inuit and Native American representation.
Originally called Frenchtown, Grant City on Staten Island for Ulysses S Grant. Many streets in that area are Lincoln Ave, Adams, Colfax et al
Well here in Trinidad we have the Churchill-Roosevelt Highway named after Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt
It’s cool that as it gets to later presidents, the locations move further west. Starting at the east cost, then the Midwest, then the west.
that's how the US was settled (so the new settlements needed names)
2:43 I WAS NOT EXPECTING A HAMILTON REFRENCE
In Belgrade, Serbia, 2 of the most central streets are named by George Washington and Woodrow WIlson and the whole blocks are non-officialy named by that
I’m pretty sure Biden has a rest area/welcome center in Delaware.
In Indonesia, there's a fried rice stall called "Nasi Goreng Obama" since it's located right in front of a school where Obama used to study. I guess you can call that a place?
Fillmore actually has a strong presence in Western NY. There's a Fillmore, NY. East Aurora, NY is where his house is, and he was buried in Buffalo NY. Not a well known president, but he is around
I live in Harrison, Tennessee which is named for one of the 2 Harrison presidents and its in Hamilton County. While not a president, he's still one of the nation's founding fathers.
Kansas City, MO has Truman Road. It passes eastward out of town and becomes the like-named road in his hometown of Independence, where it runs in front of his house.
For John Quincy Adams, there's a small city in western Illinois called Quincy, the county seat of Adams County. The city and the county were both named after John Quincy Adams when he was just starting as President.
Fillmore District in San Francisco is named after Millard Fillmore
One of the building in my university named after Millard Fillmore.
In orange county NY, we also have a town called Monroe!!
I lived near grant's farm, named for ulysses. It has buffalo, horses, deer, etc.... The petting zoo serves beer. Pretty good time and the parking lot is almost never full.
Edit: it's on land his father in law gave him and his wife. Driving by at night you are really likely to see mist and fog. Scenic.
-JFK: *is Catholic
...Ireland names a park after him!
-Barrack Obama: has Irish relatives
...Ireland builds him a plaza!
-Joe Biden: “anything to say to the BBC?” ,(JB)”IM IRISH!”
......You can expect a statue to be built soon
In the country of Georgia (not the state), we have a pretty important street which goes to the capital city’s airport named after George W Bush.
Both Jefferson and Lincoln very nearly had states named after them. Knowing Better has a great video on the topic
My US history teacher gave us a pop quiz one day and it was one question: "Name the two country capitals named after U.S. Presidents." He said that if you get the obvious one you're smarter than him, because apparently he knew Monrovia instantly lmao. I see some of these comments have already beat me to this anyway...
Monrovia, Libera, and Washington, D.C., USA. But I feel that's kinda obvious, especially since you mentioned Monrovia.
Fillmore county in Minnesota was named after Millard Fillmore. To be fair, I grew up maybe 5 miles from it, so that's a huge help.
In the Czech republic, in Prague, the main railway station is called Wilson railway station, as well as the street where the station is.
Millard Fillmore was also the president of my alma mater, SUNY Buffalo, definitely a building named after him there. There is also a street that bears his name in my Brooklyn neighborhood, Fillmore Avenue.
I also have a nearby night school named for John Madison.
There's a river in Brazil named Rio Roosevelt (sometimes Rio Teodoro) since TR was part of an expedition that explored it and he nearly died from an infection there.
as a point of interest, there could've been another bit of name-based legacy to Jefferson--it was once proposed that there be a state of Jefferson, which i seem to remember had a few different hypothetical locations but the most famous one would have been made from parts of northern California and southern Oregon and therefore would've been wedged between the two as a fourth West Coast state
For a place actually in the United States you could have gone with Van Buren county in the state of Michigan.
There are presidential libraries (unofficial and official) dedicated to every single president.
Lol, it made me laugh when you said "but is there anywhere named after Millard Fillmore", because the hospital I was born in is named after him (there are actually two different hospitals in Buffalo, NY named after him, Gates and Suburban, however Gates recently closed)
Being native to Los Angeles, there are so many places, streets , schools, hotels, etc that are name after presidents. in the San Fernando Valley suburban area of Woodland Hills called Taft High school, In East LA, there are Garfield and Roosevelt High ( Movie fact, the movie "Stand and Deliver" With Edward James Olmos who played high school teacher Jaime Escalante who inspired many of his students to stay in school and not drop out was filmed between Garfield and Roosevelt High schools . East LA is predominately Hispanic. Any way "Stand and Deliver " is a great movie and if you get a chance to watch it, do),
There's the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood that was the home of the first few Academy Awards ceremonies in the 20's and 30's .
Two years ago, A street in Los Angeles was renamed Barack Obama Blvd, There are high schools named after Thomas Jefferson and George Washington . Of course many othwr streets here in Los Angeles are named after Presidents Adams, Lincoln , Washington and Jefferson. In Dallas,Tx, there are two tollways name for both president Bushes and there's an expressway named for Lyndon B,. Johnson in Dallas , all three were from Texas. There's a hospital named for LBJ in Houston. The George Washington Bridge and Lincoln Tunnel are transportation thorough fares in New York City
I live in Monrovia, Liberia and grew up on Bushrod Island, named of course, after Bushrod Washington. My son was born at the JFK Medical Center, located on Tubman Boulevard, named after a cousin of Harriet Tubman who served as Liberia's President for 27 years. Our neighborhood, Caldwell is between New Georgia and Louisiana and is located on the St. Paul River. Living in Liberia is a course in US Civics.
There is a US Grant High School in OKC and there is a McKinleyville in Humboldt County, CA.
And for LBJ--two things: Interstate 635, in Dallas, named the LBJ Freeway and he was from Johnson City, TX, but this was named for his great uncle, James Polk Johnson.
1:24 if you look closely, you’ll see delaware and Rhode Island are missing from the map.
I live only an hour away from Pierceton Indiana... and I have never heard of it till now
I am from New Hampshire, USA and here we have a Washington, NH as well as Jefferson, Lincoln, Monroe, Madison and Jackson. Also, we have The Presidential Range of the Appalachian Mountains which contains: Mt Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Monroe, Madison, Pierce and Eisenhower.
To hell with Franklin Pierce not being known. There's Pierce County in Washington, where I was born. And that's not some backwoods area either. It's part of the Seattle-Tacoma Metropolitan area and the entirety of Mt. Rainer is located in it
In my hometown of Vienna, Austria (EU), we have a Roosevelt-square and a Kennedy-bridge.
I love that everyone else's pictures are their normal official presidential photos but George H.W. Bush's is that episode of The Simpsons lmao
I'm watching from Madison County, Nebraska (the county is named indirectly for President Madison because it was named after Madison, Wisconsin), immediately north of here is Pierce County. Our state also has Adams County, Arthur County, Garfield County, Grant County, Hayes County, Lincoln County (our capitol is in Lancaster County), Polk County, we also have Washington County. There was a very short-lived Johnson County that was formed in 1855 and dissolved in 1856 but this was in Nebraska Territory. There are several towns named after Presidents. You mentioned our capitol city, Lincoln.
The most important item for a place to be named for a president, is how fast is the country growing at the time and shortly after. A new state may get you a county named for you, but counties don't usually change their names for later presidents.
That sneaky Hamilton reference, my man!!!
I've been shopping at Kalustyan's for decades, and all the time I had no idea that that little building hosted a presidential oath of office. In case you're wondering why a president would be sworn in in NYC, it's because Chester Arthur became president upon the assassination of James Garfield in 1881. Other presidential oaths outside of Washington: T. Roosevelt in Buffalo, NY in 1901, Calvin Coolidge in Plymouth Notch, Vt in 1923 and Lyndon Johnson aboard Air Force One on the tarmac in Dallas in 1963.
Buffalo, NY has a Fillmore Ave and Millard Fillmore Hospital.
You should do this for every country, maybe one continent at a time
You could almost do a whole RUclips Channel with this content.
A good one for Monroe would have been the Capital of Liberia: Monrovia
Each President has a library built and named after them after they come out of office. Also I don't know if u have neds declassified in the UK but the school in the show is named after polk
The Taft Broadcasting Company (1939-1999), was a media conglomerate specializing in radio and television stations, was founded in 1939 by Charles Phelps Taft, the brother of president William Howard Taft.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taft_Broadcasting
There is a Fillmore district in San Francisco, CA!
Grantsville,Utah. Your shows are awesome. Thank you
Wilson also has this in Albania which you didn't mention:
During the interbellum era Shëngjin City was named Wilson
Today there is Wilson Square in Tirana and his statue
there was also a proposed state in california named after thomas jefferson
Funny should ask... there's actually a major street and neighborhood named after Millard Fillmore in my hometown. :)
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