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List of memorials to Anthony Wayne

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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.

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Communities

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Forests and parks

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Villages

Schools and Colleges

Streets and highways

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Structures and businesses

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In transportation

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  • 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.{{cite news | first=Mike | last=Lafferty | title=Lake Erie searchers locate 157-year-old shipwreck | url=http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2007/06/21/wreck.ART_ART_06-21-07_A1_3072T13.html| work=Columbus Dispatch | date=June 21, 2007 | access-date=April 29, 2008}}
  • 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.{{Cite book|title=John Wayne : the life and legend|last=Eyman|first=Scott|publisher=Simon & Schuster|year=2014|isbn=9781439199589|location=New York|pages=48}}{{cite book |last1=Sweeney |first1=Camille |last2=Gosfield |first2=Josh |date=2013 |title=The art of doing : how superachievers do what they do and how they do it so well |url=https://archive.org/details/artofdoinghowsup0000swee |url-access=registration |location=New York |publisher=Penguin Group |page=[https://archive.org/details/artofdoinghowsup0000swee/page/8 8] |isbn=9781101602812}}
  • 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.{{IMDb title|qid=Q17985632|title=Assault on the Wayne|description=(1971)(TV)}}
  • 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

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