List of American Places Named After People - T

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• Taft, California – William Howard Taft
• Talmadge, Maine – Benjamin Talmadge (landowner)
• Talmage, California – Junius Talmage (early settler)
• Tamworth, New Hampshire – British Admiral Washington Shirley, Viscount Tamworth
• Tancred, California – Tancred, Prince of Galilee
• Tarkington Prairie, Texas – Burton Tarkington (early settler)
• Tarpey, California – Arthur B. Tarpey
• Taylor, New York – Zachary Taylor
• Taylor County, Florida – Zachary Taylor, twelfth President of the United States of America
• Taylorville, California – Samuel P. Taylor (paper mill owner)
• Tecopa, California – Chief Tecopa (Paiute chief)
• Temple, New Hampshire – John Temple (lieutenant governor to colonial governor John Wentworth)
• Temple, Texas – Bernard Moore Temple (civil engineer)
• Terry, Montana – General Alfred Howe Terry
• Thetford, Vermont – Augustus Henry Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, 4th Earl of Arlington and 4th Viscount Thetford
• Thomaston, Connecticut – Seth Thomas (clockmaker)
• Thomaston, Maine – General John Thomas of the Continental Army
• Thompson, Connecticut – Sir Robert Thompson (English landholder)
• Thorndike, Maine – Israel Thorndike (landowner)
• Thornton, Colorado – Governor Dan Thornton
• Thornton, New Hampshire – Dr. Matthew Thornton (signer of the Declaration of Independence)
• Tilton, New Hampshire – Nathaniel Tilton (iron foundry owner and hotelier)
• Tinley Park, Illinois – Samuel Tinley, Sr. (railroad station agent)
• Todd Valley, California – Dr. F. Walton Todd (store owner)
• Toms Place, California – Tom Yernby (resort owner)
• Tormey, California – Patrick Tormey (landowner)
• Torrance, California – Jared Sidney Torrance
• Towle, California – George and Allen Towle (local lumbermen)
• Townsend, Massachusetts – Charles Townshend (British cabinet minister) (note spelling)
• Townshend, Vermont – the Townshend family (powerful figures in British politics)
• Towson, Maryland – Ezekial Towson (hotelier)
• Trenton, New Jersey – William Trent (landholder)
• Trumbull, Connecticut – Jonathan Trumbull (governor of Connecticut)
• Truxton, New York – Commodore Thomas Truxton (naval officer of the American Revolution)
• Tuftonboro, New Hampshire – John Tufton Mason (owner of the town)
• Tully, New York – Marcus Tullius Cicero
• Tunbridge, Vermont – William Henry Nassau de Zuylestein, 4th Earl of Rochford, Viscount Tunbridge, Baron Enfield and Colchester
• Tupman, California – H.V. Tupman (landowner)
• Turner, Maine – Reverend Charles Turner (agent, later became minister of the town)
• Turners Falls, Massachusetts – Captain William Turner
• Tustin, California – Columbus Tustin
• Tuttle, California – R.H. Tuttle (railroad executive)
• Twain Harte, California – Mark Twain and Bret Harte
• Tyler, Texas – John Tyler
• Tyngsborough, Massachusetts – Colonel Jonathan Tyng (landowner)
• Tyringham, Massachusetts Jane Tyringham (married name Beresford) cousin of Sir Francis Bernard – only town in Massachusetts named after a woman. Sir Francis Bernard inherited Nether Winchendon House, Bucks., England from her.