Place names and roads name after two people

[Pete from Boston]

Sleater-Kinney Road near Olympia, WA

Well I'll be damned.  I always assumed these were people in the band.

There's Adams-Morgan in DC.

[theline]

Is there anything named "Wright", after the Wright brothers? I can't find any.

The road from I-380 to the Eastern Iowa Airport in Cedar Rapids is Wright Brothers Blvd.  Then there's Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton, Ohio.

That would be three people, I guess. 

I'd add Ladd-Peebles Stadium in Mobile.

[1995hoo]

It occurs to me the Dulles Toll Road is formally named the Omer L. Hirst—Adelard L. Brault Expressway in honor of the two state legislators who sponsored the bill leading to the road's construction. But I've never heard anyone call it that and it only appears on small signs (what I think of as "honorific" signs).

[mukade]

In a strange way, Newton and Jasper are together as place names in several places. John Newton and William Jasper were Revolutionary War heroes so we see Jasper and Newton Counties adjacent to each other in several states including Indiana, Texas, Missouri, Georgia, and Mississippi. In Illinois and Iowa, the county seat of Jasper County is Newton. In Arkansas, Jasper is the county seat of Newton County. I think there are other examples of Jasper and Newton being together, but separate.

[hbelkins]

The bridges crossing the Big Sandy River on I-64 between West Virginia and Kentucky (maintained by WV) is named after two construction workers who were killed in an accident when the bridges were being rehabbed a few years ago. Don't ask me to remember their names off the top of my head.

[pianocello]

The Penn Lincoln Parkway in Pittsburgh, but that's named after two roads (William Penn Highway and Lincoln Highway) that just happen to be named after people.

[noelbotevera]

I could not find background, but Penhar Drive around Harrisburg could count. Pen is probably for William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania, and Har is probably for Harrisburg (which I do not know if it's named after anyone). If not Harrisburg, probably an altering of "Hershey", so Milton S. Hershey.

[Pete from Boston]

Leonard P. Zakim [George] Bunker Hill Bridge

[jakeroot]

Sleater-Kinney Road near Olympia, WA

Well I'll be damned.  I always assumed these were people in the band.

In case it wasn't obvious, Sleater-Kinney Road was the site of their original practice site (or one of them).

[1995hoo]

Leonard P. Zakim [George] Bunker Hill Bridge

That's three people. You forgot Bill Buckner. 

[SP Cook]

The bridges crossing the Big Sandy River on I-64 between West Virginia and Kentucky (maintained by WV) is named after two construction workers who were killed in an accident when the bridges were being rehabbed a few years ago. Don't ask me to remember their names off the top of my head.

Kim Perry and Greg Gentry.

http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Text_HTML/1998_SESSIONS/RS/Bills/HCR26%20INTR.htm

Also Bobby Miller and Homer Hogan on the WV Turnpike, also killed doing repairs.

http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Text_HTML/1998_SESSIONS/RS/Bills/SCR5%20INTR.htm

And local businessmen Jack Fruth and Charles Lanham, for US 35.

http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Text_HTML/2011_SESSIONS/RS/Bills/scr25%20intr%20-%20Copy.htm

Note that two of the three resolutions are technically incorrect.  The second references the DOH, rather than the woefully named WV PEDTA.  The third calls US 35, WV 35.

I'm sure there are many others.  The legislature spends the first two weeks of its session every year naming roads after people (without appropriating any money to pay for the signage) and a lot are multiple people named.  There is one on Corridor G named after a father and son Army pair, killed in different wars.  Cannot remember the name right off.

[lepidopteran]

The College of William and Mary

Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport.  Originally named for William B. Hartsfield, but when Maynard H. Jackson passed in 2003, there was a move to change the airport's name.  Instead, it was renamed for both men, each a mayor of Atlanta.

If we count department stores, there'd be a LOT.  (Sears Roebuck, Lord & Taylor, Belk Lindsey, etc.)

[sammi]

There are the MacDonald-Cartier Bridge and Airport in Ottawa.

ON 401 is also the M-C Freeway.

[Brandon]

If we count department stores, there'd be a LOT.  (Sears Roebuck, Lord & Taylor, Belk Lindsey, etc.)

We could go for three on those:

Stix, Bauer, and Fuller
Carson Pirie Scott

[huskeroadgeek]

In a strange way, Newton and Jasper are together as place names in several places. John Newton and William Jasper were Revolutionary War heroes so we see Jasper and Newton Counties adjacent to each other in several states including Indiana, Texas, Missouri, Georgia, and Mississippi. In Illinois and Iowa, the county seat of Jasper County is Newton. In Arkansas, Jasper is the county seat of Newton County. I think there are other examples of Jasper and Newton being together, but separate.

I noticed this a long time ago and for a long time I wondered if there was some famous person named Jasper Newton or Newton Jasper.

[lepidopteran]

In Columbus, OH, State Route 315, aka the Olentangy River Expressway, is known as the Moody-Jackson Parkway.  While there was a football player named Moody Jackson, the hyphenation suggests it was two people.  The Moody part was probably Columbus mayor Tom Moody, since he helped build Central Ohio's freeway network.  Not sure who the Jackson half is.

[vtk]

In Columbus, OH, State Route 315, aka the Olentangy River Expressway, is known as the Moody-Jackson Parkway.  While there was a football player named Moody Jackson, the hyphenation suggests it was two people.  The Moody part was probably Columbus mayor Tom Moody, since he helped build Central Ohio's freeway network.  Not sure who the Jackson half is.

Did Moody Jackson play for the Buckeyes?

[steviep24]

In downtown Rochester, NY they have the Frederick Douglas-Susan B. Anthony Memorial Bridge on I 490. Traffic reporters and locals call it the Freddy Sue Bridge.

[empirestate]

In downtown Rochester, NY they have the Frederick Douglas-Susan B. Anthony Memorial Bridge on I 490. Traffic reporters and locals call it the Freddy Sue Bridge.

And it replaced the Troup-Howell Bridge, which wasn't named for two people but for two streets...which in turn, of course, were named for people.


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[Pete from Boston]

We have something here called "Teddy Ebersol's Red Sox Fields at Lederman Park," the result of overlaying one commemorative naming on another (and the name of one honoree's favorite team for good measure).

[PHLBOS]

The street name for WA 14 is the Lewis & Clark Scenic Byway.