Talk:Honors and memorials to the Marquis de Lafayette

Many streets around the United States are named for Lafayette...

As a lifelong resident of the East Coast of the US, from Maryland to Maine, I cannot help but point out that almost every middle-size to major city on the East Coast has a "Lafayette Street". I myself just returned from a walk from the grocery store here in Newark, NJ, and my walk took me down one such Lafayette Street. I just want to point out that there are literally THOUSANDS of Lafayette Streets here in the Eastern US, more than could reasonably be listed here. Right off the top of my head, there is Morristown, NJ; Newark, NJ; New York, NY; but there are many, many more. I tried to Google a list of streets named after the good Marquis, but nothing came up. My point, then, is that countless and thousands of towns and cities here on the East Coast have Lafayette Streets, one in almost every town in which I have ever lived in or visited. I will list these from memory: Portland, ME; Boston, MA (Avenue de Lafayette); Salem, MA; Trenton, NJ; Annapolis, MD (Lafayette Ave.); Brooklyn, NY (Lafayette Ave.); Stamford, CT; Mt. Kisco, NY; White Plains, NY; New Haven, CT; and the list goes on. My only point is that there are an abnormally large number of cities with streets bearing the Marquis de Lafayette's name, such that your average East Coast resident - who, like most other Americans, has difficulty pronouncing French names and places - has no difficulty whatever pronouncing the good Marquis' name. In short, I think that this would be an interesting expansion to this article, if only in the form of a long list, as it redounds to the man's fame and life-achievements.Mousebelt (talk) 04:27, 31 July 2015 (UTC)

Honors and memorials in the U.S. only?

There are many, many memorials and honors to Lafayette in France - and other places as well I am sure. This seems to be a list of honors and memorials to Lafayette exclusively in the United States. Is this intentional?? If this is intentional is there a way to indicate that formally on the page without screwing up too many things elsewhere? Or, if this isn't intentional, would it be appropriate to create a couple of new sections either above or below the current structure, for example: In the United States, In France,and Elsewhere, and let people start filling in the blanks? Atani (talk) 20:42, 5 December 2015 (UTC)

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