Highways, bridges, tunnels named after specific women

[Pete from Boston]

Changed title to better reflect criteria in my "clarfying" post near the start.

[roadman65]

In Vermont the official name for VT 9 is the Molly Starke Trail.

[theline]

It could be argued that Ingalls St. in Walnut Grove, MN, which passes in front of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Museum may be named for the most famous of the Ingalls, though probably for the whole family.

St. Charles, IL has a Laura Ingalls Wilder Road.

[Brandon]

Some things get named well after they were built.  As an example, there's the Jane Byrne Interchange (formerly the Circle Interchange) in Chicago.  Personally, I think it was a veiled insult as it is a basketcase of an interchange, and her derisive nickname while mayor was "Crazy Jane".

[kkt]

I can't believe no one has mentioned the Jane Addams Tollway yet.

[hbelkins]

Kentucky has the Martha Layne Collins Bluegrass Parkway, all 72 four-lane miles of it.

A section of US 68 in the central part of the state is named and signed as the Jane Todd Crawford Trail.

[hotdogPi]

Most streets called Virginia St./Ave./Rd. are directly named after the state of Virginia, and therefore indirectly named after Elizabeth I.

Named for Queen Elizabeth I of England (known as the Virgin Queen), who granted Walter Raleigh the charter to form a colony north of Spanish Florida.

[US81]

Babe Zaharias Dr in Beaumont, TX

[Thing 342]

Mary Ball Road (VA-3 on the Northern Neck)
Mary Inges Hwy (Part of KY-8)
Virginia Dare Trail (Part of NC-12)

Forgot about the Virginia Dare Memorial Bridge, which carries US-64 across the Croatan Sound.

[theline]

Julia Tuttle Causeway?

And apparently Brickell Avenue: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Brickell

But not Earhart Expressway in New Orleans.

But there is . . .
Amelia Earhart Drive, Brownsville, TX (South Padre Island Intl. Airport)
Amelia Earhart Drive, Salt Lake City (also near the airport)
Amelia Earhart Drive, Omaha (near Eppley Airfield)
Amelia Earhart Drive, Naples, UT (near Vernal Regional Airport)
Amelia Earhart Blvd., Egg Harbor Township, NJ (near Atlantic City Intl.)
Amelia Earhart Point, Crystal River, FL (also near the airport)

I'm sure I've missed some. The thing I couldn't find is a road named for Amelia Earhart that wasn't near an airport.

On to another famous historical American, I found . . .
Harriet Tubman Lane, Columbia, MD
Harriet Tubman Street, Knoxville, TN
Harriet Tubman Street, Camden, AL
Harriet Tubman Avenue, Bridgeville, DE
Harriet Tubman Drive, Exmore, VA

And another . . .
Eleanor Roosevelt Street, Jasper, TX
Eleanor Roosevelt Lane, Willard, NC
Eleanor Roosevelt Lane, San Diego (UCSD campus)
Eleanor Roosevelt Drive, Laurel, MT
Eleanor Roosevelt Drive, Jacksonville, FL

[dfwmapper]

While not a highway, the Rose Kennedy Greenway came about as a result of the Big Dig; it's the parkland where much of the old Central Artery once stood and now covers most of the O'Neill Tunnel.

Similar situation, the Margaret T. Hance Park, which is on top of the I-10 tunnel in downtown Phoenix.

[national highway 1]

Queen Victoria Street, in Central, Hong Kong
http://goo.gl/maps/cGGwZ

[cjk374]

Lea Joyner bridge, which carries US 80/LA 15 over the Ouachita River in Monroe/West Monroe, LA.

http://www.knowla.org/entry/896/

[DrSmith]

Not highways or bridges, but along the NJ Turnpike you have service plazas named after Molly Pitcher, Joyce Kilmer, and Clara Barton

[Pete from Boston]

Not highways or bridges, but along the NJ Turnpike you have service plazas named after Molly Pitcher, Joyce Kilmer, and Clara Barton

Maybe you want to reconsider Joyce Kilmer in that list...

[woodpusher]

Knoxville TN has Pat Head Summit Street and Chamique Holdsclaw Drive.

[DandyDan]

Julia Tuttle Causeway?

And apparently Brickell Avenue: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Brickell

But not Earhart Expressway in New Orleans.

But there is . . .
Amelia Earhart Drive, Brownsville, TX (South Padre Island Intl. Airport)
Amelia Earhart Drive, Salt Lake City (also near the airport)
Amelia Earhart Drive, Omaha (near Eppley Airfield)
Amelia Earhart Drive, Naples, UT (near Vernal Regional Airport)
Amelia Earhart Blvd., Egg Harbor Township, NJ (near Atlantic City Intl.)
Amelia Earhart Point, Crystal River, FL (also near the airport)

I'm sure I've missed some. The thing I couldn't find is a road named for Amelia Earhart that wasn't near an airport.

Amelia Earhart does get the Amelia Earhart Bridge in Atchison, Kansas (her old hometown).

[DandyDan]

Boys Town, Nebraska has a Mother Teresa Lane.  Of course, Boys Town is run by an arm of the Catholic Church.  Looking through my Rand McNally Omaha atlas (4th Edition, published in 2004), I noticed a Bjork St. west of Bennington, NE, but whether that is the Icelandic singer, I have no idea.  The one thing RMcN does that's really annoying to me, however, is the fact they call the segment of NE 370 immediately west of US 75 Kate Fox Road, a name I have never otherwise heard, nor do I know who in the world Kate Fox is.  This has been in every Omaha inset of the RMcN at least since the time I moved here to the Omaha area.

[theline]

Not highways or bridges, but along the NJ Turnpike you have service plazas named after Molly Pitcher, Joyce Kilmer, and Clara Barton

Maybe you want to reconsider Joyce Kilmer in that list...

But you can add Gene Stratton Porter Rd, Urbana, IN. There is also the Gene Stratton Porter Travel Plaza at Mile Post 126 of the Indiana Toll Road, near Howe. Porter, a woman, was the author of 12 novels and 7 nature books. She was also a naturalist water color artist.

[lepidopteran]

I almost added (Beverly) Briley Parkway in Nashville, TN to this list, until I learned that his full name was Clifton Beverly Briley.   Similar to Alfred Joyce Kilmer.

There's a Marie Curie Drive in Elkridge, MD.

In Monterey, CA, near the Naval Research Lab, there a road named for Grace Hopper, a USN Rear Admiral who was a computer science pioneer.

[DeaconG]

Christa McAuliffe Bridge in Merritt Island, FL; the drawbridge had a major reconstruction a few years after it was named.

[national highway 1]

Skye Winter Bridge, on the M31 near Woodbine
http://goo.gl/maps/hlrt7

[empirestate]

Nothing for Rachel Carson, huh? –Oh, I found one: Rachel Carson Parkway in Myrtle Beach. And another, Rachel Carson Way west of Ithaca. Neither could be considered at all major.

[NE2]

There's a Rachel Carson Boulevard in Spring, Texas, but it's not signed and nobody calls it that.

[Mr_Northside]

Nothing for Rachel Carson, huh? –Oh, I found one: Rachel Carson Parkway in Myrtle Beach. And another, Rachel Carson Way west of Ithaca. Neither could be considered at all major.

We have a Rachel Carson bridge here in Pittsburgh.  It was renamed a few years ago. (It was the 9th St. Bridge - one of the "Sister Bridges" spanning the Allegheny.)