List of things named for Henry Clay

Henry Clay

The following is a list of things named for Henry Clay, as well as monuments and memorials in his honor.

Roads[]

• Henry Clay Boulevard and Clay Avenue in Lexington, Kentucky
• Henry Clay Boulevard in Ashland, Missouri
• Clay Streets in numerous cities, including New Haven, Connecticut, Richmond, Virginia, Vicksburg, Mississippi and Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin.
• Ashland Ave. in Chicago, Illinois; Ashland, Virginia, Ashland County in Ohio and Wisconsin were named for his estate, as were the cities of Ashland in Kentucky, Alabama, and Pennsylvania.
• Henry Clay Court in on Skidaway Island, Georgia

Towns[]

• Ashland, Missouri, was named after Clay's Lexington, Kentucky estate, as was Ashland, Massachusetts.
• Clay, in Onondaga County, New York, including the road Henry Clay Boulevard. Also, Clayville in Oneida County, New York.
• Clay, Kentucky in western Kentucky is named in honor of Clay.
• Clay, West Virginia is named for Henry Clay.
• Clay City, Indiana is named for Henry Clay.
• Henry Clay Village, or Breck's Mill Area, on the left bank of Brandywine Creek in Wilmington, Delaware, factory and mill worker's residences.
• The town of Claysburg in central Pennsylvania is named in honor of Clay.
• Clay, New York, a suburb of Syracuse, is named after Henry Clay.
• Clayville, New York a town named after Clay during the late 1800s, a highly popular area with mills and factories.
• Clayville, Illinois was an active settlement during the statesman's life.
• Claysville, Alabama is named in honor of Clay.

Counties[]

• Sixteen Clay counties in the United States, in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, North Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, and West Virginia. (Clay County, Iowa is named for his son Henry Clay Jr.)

Monuments[]

Tomb in Lexington, KY

Henry Clay Monument in New Orleans ca.1890

• Memorial column and statue at his tomb in Lexington, Kentucky
• Statue of Clay in the National Statuary Hall Collection, Capitol, Washington D.C.
• Henry Clay statue and portrait in Virginia State Capitol in Richmond, Virginia
• Henry Clay monument in Pottsville, Pennsylvania^[1]

Other[]

• Mount Clay in the Presidential Range of New Hampshire was named for Clay, since renamed Mount Reagan by the state legislature but not by the federal Board on Geographic Names
• In New Orleans: uptown – Henry Clay Avenue, and downtown – a 20-foot-tall monument erected in 1860 at Canal Street and St. Charles Avenue/Royal Street, and moved to the center of Lafayette Square in 1901.
• Many schools throughout the U.S., including Clay High School in South Bend, Indiana, Henry Clay High School in Lexington, Kentucky,^[2] Henry Clay Middle School in Los Angeles, California, Henry Clay Elementary School in the Hegewisch neighborhood in Chicago, Henry Clay School in Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin and Henry Clay Elementary School in his birthplace, Ashland, Hanover County, Virginia.
• The Instituto Educacional Henry Clay in Caracas, Venezuela, a bilingual private school
• The Clay Dormitory at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky
• The Lafayette class submarine USS Henry Clay (SSBN-625), the only ship of the United States Navy named in his honor, although the USS Ashland (LSD-1) and USS Ashland (LSD-48) are named for his estate
• Clay is one of the many senators honored with a cenotaph in the Congressional Cemetery.
• Between 1870 and 1908, Clay was invariably included in the pantheon of Great Americans presented on U. S. definitive postage stamps: he appeared on the 12¢ denomination in the issues of 1870, 1873 and 1879 and on the 15¢ denomination in the issues of 1890, 1894, 1898 and 1902. He has since been honored by the United States Postal Service with a 3¢ Great Americans series postage stamp.
• Cooper's Rock State Forest in West Virginia features a preserved nineteenth century iron furnace named in commemoration of Henry Clay.
• The Henry Clay, an historic upscale residential building in downtown Louisville, KY, formerly the city's YWCA building.

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