Simon Kenton - Namesakes

Namesakes

The city of Kenton, the county seat of northwestern Ohio's Hardin County, was named in honor of Simon Kenton. A local school for the developmentally disabled in Hardin County is named Simon Kenton.

Kenton County, Kentucky is named for him, as is Simon Kenton High School in Independence, Kentucky, the county seat. A statue honoring him is along Covington, Kentucky's Riverside Drive Historic District, overlooking the Ohio River.

There are two Simon Kenton Elementary Schools, one in Greene County, Ohio, in the city of Xenia, and one in Clark County, Ohio in the city of Springfield.

Simon Kenton Road is a residential street in a development at the base of Bull Run Mountain in Prince William County, Virginia

The Simon Kenton Council is the name of a geographical division of the Boy Scouts of America, spanning from Central Ohio to northern Kentucky.

In the Frontiersman Camping Fellowship of the Royal Rangers Indiana is designated the Simon Kenton Chapter.

The Simon Kenton Pub in Bath County, Virginia is named after this notable frontiersman.

The Simon Kenton Inn in Springfield, Ohio is located where Simon first settled in Ohio during the spring of 1799.

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