List of places named for Benjamin Franklin
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This is a list of places in the United States named for Benjamin Franklin:
- State of Franklin (now eastern Tennessee)
- Franklin Institute
- Franklin County, Alabama
- Franklin County, Arkansas
- Franklin County, Florida
- Franklin County, Georgia
- Franklin County, Illinois
- Franklin County, Indiana
- Franklin County, Iowa
- Franklin County, Kentucky
- Franklin County, New York
- Franklin County, North Carolina
- Franklin County, Ohio
- Franklin County, Pennsylvania
- Franklin County, Vermont
- Franklin County, Virginia
- Franklin County, Washington
- Franklin, California (unincorporated town)
- Franklin, Indiana
- Franklin, Kentucky
- Franklinton, North Carolina
- Franklin, Ohio
- Franklin Township, Warren County, Ohio
- Franklin, Massachusetts
- Franklin, Tennessee
- Franklin Mountains, El Paso, Texas
- Franklin College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, established 1787; now Franklin and Marshall College
- Franklin College
- Franklin College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Georgia (in its earliest days, before the university contained multiple colleges, the entire institution was referred to as Franklin)
- Benjamin Franklin High School (New Orleans, Louisiana)
- Franklin High School, Owings Mills, Maryland
- Benjamin Franklin Middle School, Vallejo, California
- Benjamin Franklin Middle School, Tonawanda, New York
- Benjamin Franklin Middle School, Ridgewood, New Jersey
- Franklin Elementary School, Summit, New Jersey
- Benjamin Franklin Middle School, Teaneck, New Jersey
- Ben Franklin Elementary School, Lawrenceville, New Jersey
- Benjamin Franklin Middle School, Rocky Mount, Virginia
- Franklin Middle School (Fairfax County, Virginia)
- Franklin Middle School, Reisterstown, Maryland
- Franklin Elementary School, Reisterstown, Maryland
- Benjamin Franklin Elementary School, Yorktown Heights, New York
- Franklin Elementary, Rochester, Minnesota
- Franklin Mills (shopping mall)
The Franklin crater on the Moon is named for him.
The Benjamin Franklin Bridge, which spans the Delaware River and connects Camden, New Jersey, to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is also named for him, as is Philadelphia's major thoroughfare, Ben Franklin Parkway.
Franklin Field, the football stadium at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, is also named after him.
See also: Franklin (disambiguation)
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