Memorial Day street names

[Streetman]

As we enter the Memorial Day weekend, I hope we remember what the holiday is really about: commemorating the members of our armed forces who lost their lives in the service of our nation. My hometown of Hamden, CT, has remembered our such men (so far they have all been men) by naming streets after them. Mostly, they are scattered around town, but there are two notable subdivisions where all the streets are named for them: one group of seven streets named for men who died in both World Wars and Korea, and another, called Honor Hill, with the names of Vietnam casualties.
I wonder how extensively this fine practice is used elsewhere.

[Henry]

Usually these names are in the form of something like "War Veterans Memorial Highway/Drive/Boulevard" or something like that. But if we're not counting those, then I like how Hamden has honored its heroes with their own street names.

[Flint1979]

Saginaw, MI has a Veterans Memorial Parkway.

[Hunty2022]

The US 250 Bypass of Charlottesville is known as Veterans Memorial Drive at its intersection with Hydraulic Road.

Other green name signs lazily show the bypass named as "250 Bypass".

[CtrlAltDel]

The town I grew up in renamed a few streets that were previously just numbered with the names of the people from the town that died in the Second World War. One of them was a relative of the current mayor of the town, who last year traveled to the place in France where he died and discussed what happened in his Memorial Day speech.

Incidentally, some neighboring towns have also changed their street numbers to match the new names, which I find interesting.

ETA: At the Memorial Day ceremony in the town this morning, they presented a brief biography of three of these people. Two of them, who were best friends and who joined the army together, died in the Bataan Death March. The other died in a non-combat plane crash, a bit east of Lyon in France. The town where the crash took place holds a small commemoration every two years, and in the most recent one, hosted his great nephew, who gave a speech.

[TheHighwayMan3561]

MN has things like

Victory Memorial Parkway, Minneapolis
Veterans Drive, Paynesville

TH 23 from the I-35 junction north of Sandstone to Duluth is the Veterans Evergreen Memorial Drive scenic byway.

[NE2]

What about the Liberty Memorial Parkway near Tulsa?

[epzik8]

We have a Vietnam Veterans Memorial Highway in Maryland (MD 24) and I believe there is a freeway in Delaware bearing that name, and part of DE 1 in Dover is the Korea War Veterans highway.

[mgk920]

Soldier's Square here in Appleton, WI.Has a monument to a local Union soldier who died in camp in the Civil War, presented by a local businessguy and the Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R. an organization of Union veterans of the Civil War) in 1911.

Mike

[Big John]

Armed Forces Drive going east from Lambeau Field.

[hotdogPi]

The OP seemed to be going after streets named after individual people rather than "VFW" or "Armed Forces" in general.

I would have no idea what types of people the streets in my area with people's names are named after.

[Streetman]

The OP seemed to be going after streets named after individual people rather than "VFW" or "Armed Forces" in general....

Yes, and, in the spirit of the holiday, not those dedicated to all veterans, but to those who died in the line of duty. So far, only the post from CtrlAltDel has mentioned such streets. It's unfortunate the practice doesn't seem to be more widespread.

[Scott5114]

Nellis Blvd. in Las Vegas would arguably qualify, since William H. Nellis was a Las Vegas local who died in the Battle of the Bulge. The street was probably named after the Air Force base named after Nellis, though.

It's unfortunate the practice doesn't seem to be more widespread.

How would you know if it was? Most places don't have very many well-known dead soldiers, so if there was a neighborhood full of these it would just look like a random grab bag of last names, unless someone went out of their way to publicize how they chose their names.

It's not likely the practice will spread, since changing names of existing streets is disruptive enough that local governments don't do it on a whim, and new streets tend to be built by developers who think they can charge more for a house if they name the street something like Windy Bromeliad Terrace.

[mrsman]

As we enter the Memorial Day weekend, I hope we remember what the holiday is really about: commemorating the members of our armed forces who lost their lives in the service of our nation. My hometown of Hamden, CT, has remembered our such men (so far they have all been men) by naming streets after them. Mostly, they are scattered around town, but there are two notable subdivisions where all the streets are named for them: one group of seven streets named for men who died in both World Wars and Korea, and another, called Honor Hill, with the names of Vietnam casualties.
I wonder how extensively this fine practice is used elsewhere.

This is very interesting.  Could you show us where in Hamden these named streets are or a list of streets as "Honor Hill" is not recognized in Google Maps.

There are certainly many streets that are named after very prominent war heroes (leading generals and the like).  Most of whom did not die during the wars and very rarely for wars after WWII.

In NYC, they routinely sub-name streets after local heroes who die in action, both military as well as civilian (police, fire department).  The honorific name does not replace the old name, but gives due respect to such heroes.

Here is one such naming for a fallen Iraq war sergeant:  https://www.fox5ny.com/video/1204842

[Streetman]

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It's unfortunate the practice doesn't seem to be more widespread.

How would you know if it was? Most places don't have very many well-known dead soldiers, so if there was a neighborhood full of these it would just look like a random grab bag of last names, unless someone went out of their way to publicize how they chose their names.

It's not likely the practice will spread, since changing names of existing streets is disruptive enough that local governments don't do it on a whim, and new streets tend to be built by developers who think they can charge more for a house if they name the street something like Windy Bromeliad Terrace.

I have checked out some books and websites on street names in other cities and found very few other war heroes so honored. On Memorial Day six years ago, a monument was dedicated with the full names of the servicemen on the Honor Hill streets. It received some coverage in local media. I was hoping there might have been similar reports elsewhere:
http://hamdenhistoricalsociety.org/nhr18529.html

Agreed that existing street names should not be changed. For a time, the town of Hamden required that new streets be named for war heroes, but this is no longer the case.

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This is very interesting.  Could you show us where in Hamden these named streets are or a list of streets as "Honor Hill" is not recognized in Google Maps.
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In NYC, they routinely sub-name streets after local heroes who die in action, both military as well as civilian (police, fire department).  The honorific name does not replace the old name, but gives due respect to such heroes....

Here are the Honor Hill streets, Read, Biehl, Robertson, Ferguson, and Costanzo:
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.4022477,-72.9114471,17z
Their stories are in the previous link.

Adding a sub-name or honorific name on a sign below the existing street name is a good compromise, which has been done a couple times in Hamden, though not for war heroes.