List of American Places Named After People - L

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  • Laddville, California – Alphonso Ladd (founder)
  • La Fayette, Alabama and La Fayette, Illinois – Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette
  • LaFayette/Lafayette – Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette, 14 places in
    • California – Georgia – Indiana – Kentucky – Louisiana – Minnesota – New York – Allen County, Ohio – Madison County, Ohio – Oregon – Tennessee – Chippewa County, Wisconsin – Monroe County, Wisconsin – Walworth County, Wisconsin
  • Lafayette, Colorado – Lafayette Miller (settler and husband of Mary Miller, who platted the town)
  • Lafayette County, Florida – Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette
  • Lafayette Township – Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette, 16 places in
    • Coles County, Illinois – Ogle County, Illinois – Allen County, Indiana – Floyd County, Indiana – Madison County, Indiana – Owen County, Indiana – Allamakee County, Iowa – Bremer County, Iowa – Story County, Iowa – Chautauqua County, Kansas – Michigan – Minnesota – New Jersey – Coshocton County, Ohio – Medina County, Ohio – Pennsylvania
  • Lairds Landing, California – George and Charles Laird (early settlers)
  • Lake Charles, Louisiana – Charles Sallier
  • Lake Wilson, Minnesota – Jonathan E. Wilson (landowner)
  • Lamoine, Maine – DeLamoine (early landowner)
  • Lanare, California – L.A. Nares (developer)
  • Land, California – A.H. Land (local lumber company president)
  • Landaff, New Hampshire – Bishop of Llandaff (Llandaff is the spelling of the name on the town charter)
  • Lanesborough, Massachusetts – Countess of Lanesborough
  • Langdon, New Hampshire – Governor John Langdon
  • Laramie, Wyoming – Jacques La Ramée (French-Canadian fur trader)
  • Largo, California – Lemuel F. Long (early settler; Largo is Spanish for Long)
  • Larkin's Landing, California – Stephen Larkin (early settler)
  • Latrobe, California and Latrobe, Pennsylvania – Benjamin Henry Latrobe, II
  • Laughlin, California – James H. Laughlin, Jr. (landowner)
  • Laughlin, Nevada – Don Laughlin (founder)
  • Lavers' Crossing, California – David Lavers (founder)
  • Lawrence, Massachusetts – Abbott Lawrence (founder)
  • Laytonville, California – F.B. Layton (founder)
  • Le Grand, California – William Legrand Dickinson
  • Le Mars, Iowa – Lucy Underhill, Elizabeth Parson, Mary Weare, Anna Blair, Rebecca Smith and Sarah Reynolds (the first initials of six women aboard on a railroad excursion)
  • Leavitt, California – May F. Leavitt (first postmaster)
  • Lebec, California – Peter Lebecque or Lebeck (killed by a bear nearby in 1837)
  • Lee, California – Dick Lee (discoverer of gold at the site)
  • Lee, Maine – Stephen Lee (settler)
  • Lee, Massachusetts and Lee, New Hampshire – General Charles Lee
  • Lee County, Florida – Confederate General Robert E. Lee
  • Lee Vining, California – Leroy Vining (founder)
  • Leesville, California – Lee Harl (local landowner)
  • Lemoore, California – Dr. Lovern Lee Moore (early settler)
  • Lempster, New Hampshire – from one of the titles of Sir Thomas Farmer of a "Lempster" in England
  • Lennox, South Dakota – Ben Lennox (railroad official)
  • Letcher, California – F.F. Letcher (county supervisor)
  • Leverett, Massachusetts – John Leverett (twentieth governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony)
  • Levittown, 2 places in New York/Pennsylvania &ndash William Levitt
  • Lewis, Vermont – Nathan, Sevignior and Timothy Lewis (landholders)
  • Lewiston, Minnesota – Johnathan Smith Lewis (settler)
  • Lewistown, Pennsylvania – William Lewis
  • Lila C, California – Lila C. Coleman (mine owner's daughter)
  • Lillis, California – Simon C. Lillis (ranch superintendent)
  • Limon, Colorado – John Limon (or Lymon) (railroad construction supervisor)
  • Lincoln, Alabama and Lincoln, Vermont – Major General Benjamin Lincoln
  • Lincoln, California – Charles Lincoln Wilson (one of the organizers and directors of the California Central Railroad)
  • Lincoln, Illinois, Lincoln, Nebraska and Lincoln, Rhode Island – Abraham Lincoln
  • Lincoln, Maine – Enoch Lincoln (Maine's sixth governor)
  • Lincoln, New Hampshire – Henry Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, 2nd Duke of Newcastle, 9th Earl of Lincoln
  • Lincoln Center, Kansas – Abraham Lincoln (indirectly, via Lincoln County, Kansas)
  • Lincolnville, Maine – Major General Benjamin Lincoln (landowner)
  • Lippitt, California – Col. Francis J. Lippitt (founder)
  • Litchfield, California – Thomas Litch (pioneer)
  • Litchfield, New Hampshire – George Henry Lee, Earl of Litchfield
  • Livermore, California – Robert Livermore
  • Livermore, Maine – Deacon Elijah Livermore (early settler)
  • Livermore Falls, Maine – Deacon Elijah Livermore (early settler)
  • Livingston, California – Charles C. Livingston (railroad official)
  • Livingston, Montana – Johnston Livingston (Northern Pacific Railway stockholder and director)
  • Livingston, New Jersey – William Livingston
  • Lockwood, 3 places in California/New York/West Virginia – Belva Ann Lockwood
  • Logan, Montana – Captain William Logan (died in the Battle of the Big Hole)
  • Longmont, Colorado – Stephen Harriman Long (explorer) (indirectly, via Longs Peak)
  • Longville, California – W.B. Long (early hotel and saw mill owner)
  • Loomis, California – Jim Loomis (railroad agent, postmaster)
  • Lorenzo, Texas – Lorenzo Dow
  • Los Angeles – Our Lady the Queen of the Angels
  • Loudon, New Hampshire – John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun (note spelling)
  • Louisiana, Missouri – Louisiana Basye (daughter of local settlers)
  • Louisville, Kentucky – Louis XVI of France
  • Loveland, Colorado – William A.H. Loveland (president of the Colorado Central Railroad)
  • Lovell, Maine – Captain John Lovewell (note spelling)
  • Lovelock, California – George Lovelock (early merchant)
  • Lowell, Massachusetts – Francis Cabot Lowell
  • Lubbock, Texas – Thomas Saltus Lubbock
  • Lucia, California – Lucia Dani (first postmaster)
  • Lufkin, Texas – Abraham P. Lufkin (cotton merchant and Galveston city councilman)
  • Lundy, California – W.J. Lundy (sawmill owner)
  • Lunenburg, Massachusetts – from one of the titles of King George II of Great Britain, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
  • Lunenburg, Vermont – from one of the titles for Prince Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand of Brunswick-Lunenburg
  • Lusk, Wyoming – Frank S. Lusk (rancher and Wyoming Central Railway stockholder)
  • Lutherville, Maryland – Martin Luther (16th century German reformer)
  • Lyman, Maine – Theodore Lyman (merchant)
  • Lyman, New Hampshire – General Phineas Lyman (commander in the French and Indian War)
  • Lyndeborough, New Hampshire – Benjamin Lynde (Chief Justice of Massachusetts after town was named)
  • Lyndon, Vermont – Josias Lyndon (governor of Rhode Island)
  • Lyons, Colorado – Edward S. Lyon (founder)
  • Lysander, New York – Lysander (Spartan military leader)

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