Since the death ofAlexander Hamilton on July 12, 1804,[1] numerous things have been named after him, including unit lineage, vessels, schools, towns, buildings, public works and art, and geographic sites.
USRCHamilton (1830), the fastestMorris-Taney-class cutter, was operated out of Boston for much of her career. She became famous for rescues and saving property. A song titled "The Cutter Hamilton Quick step" was written in November 1839. The vessel was lost in a gale in 1853.[citation needed]
USSAlexander Hamilton (1871) was a revenue cutter in service from 1871 to 1906 and a participant in theSpanish–American War.[4]
USSVicksburg (PG-11) was renamed toAlexander Hamilton in 1922 after being transferred to the Coast Guard a year earlier. She was renamed toBeta between 1935 and 1936.[citation needed]
It is the neighborhood where Alexander Hamilton built his country home, George Gershwin wrote his first hit, a young Norman Rockwell discovered he liked to draw, and Ralph Ellison wroteInvisible Man.[6]
Elizabeth used part of the proceeds from the Grange estate to purchase a new townhouse from Davis, theHamilton-Holly House. Elizabeth lived in it with her grown children Alexander and Eliza, and their spouses until 1843.[8]
The main classroom building for the humanities atColumbia University isHamilton Hall.[9][10] The university's student group for Reserve Officers' Training Corps cadets and Marine officer candidates is named the Alexander Hamilton Society.[11]
Hamilton served as one of the first trustees of theHamilton-Oneida Academy, which was renamed to Hamilton College in 1812 after receiving a college charter.[12]
The main administration building of the United States Coast Guard Academy inNew London, Connecticut is named Hamilton Hall to commemorate Hamilton's creation of the United States Revenue Cutter Service, one of the predecessors to the Coast Guard.[13]
At Hamilton's birthplace inCharlestown, Nevis, theAlexander Hamilton Museum was rebuilt on the foundations of the house where Hamilton was once believed to have been born and lived during his childhood.[17]
The Hamilton Club in Brooklyn, New York City commissionedWilliam Ordway Partridge to cast a bronze statue of Hamilton. It was completed in 1892 for exhibition at theWorld's Columbian Exposition and later installed in front of the club on the corner of Remsen and Clinton Streets in 1893. The club was absorbed by another and the building was demolished; the statue was removed in 1936 to the Hamilton Grange National Memorial in Manhattan. After the memorial relocated in 2007, the statue remained at that location.[citation needed]
A bronze sculpture of Hamilton titledThe American Cape, byKristen Visbal, was unveiled at Journal Square in downtownHamilton, Ohio, in October 2004.[24]
Columbia College in New York hands out the Alexander Hamilton Medal as its highest award to accomplished alumni and to those who have offered exceptional service to the school.[25]
^"Alexander Hamilton Monument (in Lincoln Park)". ExploreChicago.org. Archived fromthe original on December 26, 2008. RetrievedSeptember 6, 2012. Finnish architectEliel Saarinen was to create a "colossal architectural setting" for it, which was ultimately rejected. It was redesigned by another architect, completed in 1952, and demolished due to structural problems in 1993.
^"Alexander Hamilton Medal".Columbia College Alumni Association. December 14, 2016. RetrievedJanuary 30, 2022.
^abcdefghijkHamilton, Lawrence M. Jr. (June 29, 2006)."Places Named Hamilton/Hambleton".Hamilton National Genealogical Society. Archived fromthe original(PDF) on December 20, 2016. RetrievedDecember 13, 2016. Two additional counties, in Iowa and Texas, were named Hamilton after other individuals.
^James, Davida Siwisa (2024).Hamilton Heights and Sugar Hill: Alexander Hamilton's Old Harlem Neighborhood Through the Centuries. New York: Fordham University Press.ISBN978-1-5315-0614-8.
.jpg)
