Legacy and Honors
- Turner Chapel in Oakville, Ontario was built in 1890 by men and women who were escaped slaves from the United States, and named in his honor.
- A portrait of Turner hangs in the state capital of Georgia.
- Turner Theological Seminary, a constituent seminary of the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta, Georgia, was named in his honor.
- In 2000, the U.S. Congress designated a Macon, Georgia post office in his honor.
- In 2002, scholar Molefi Kete Asante listed Henry McNeal Turner on his list of 100 Greatest African Americans.
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