Editing Francis Asbury (section)

==Legacy and honors==
*Asbury's boyhood home, the [[Bishop Asbury Cottage]], Newton Road, [[Great Barr]] in [[Sandwell]], England, is now a museum.<ref name="auto"/> 
*The first Methodist Episcopal school of higher education was named Cokesbury College (1785 - burned 1796) in honor of Asbury and Thomas Coke, drawing some concern from John Wesley.<ref>{{citation |last1=Wesley |first1= John |author-link1=John Wesley |last2=Coke |first2=Thomas |author-link2=Thomas Coke (bishop) |title=Letters by the Rev. John Wesley, M.A. and Rev. T. Coke, L.L.D. |orig-year=20 September 1788 |edition=second |year=1844 |publisher=D. Brunner |location=Baltimore |page=9 |chapter=John Wesley to Francis Asbury|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yWd1gw9ay5YC&pg=PA9 |quote=I found a school, you a college. Nay, and call it after your own names! Oh, beware! |ref=JW1788 }}</ref> The name lives on in [[Cokesbury]], part of the United Methodist publishing arm.
*At least six schools have been named after Asbury:
**[[Asbury Methodist Primary School]] in [[Lai King]], [[Hong Kong]].
**Two are in [[Wilmore, Kentucky]]: [[Asbury University]] and [[Asbury Theological Seminary]].
**In addition, [[DePauw University]] in [[Greencastle, Indiana]] was originally known as Indiana Asbury College after him.
**Francis Asbury Elementary School in [[Hampton, Virginia]].
**Asbury House Child Enrichment Center in Longview, Texas
**Asbury High School, [[Marshall County, Alabama]]
**Asbury College, in Pangasinan, Philippines.
*[[James A. Bradley]], a convert to Methodism, named the town he founded on the New Jersey shore, [[Asbury Park]], after Asbury.  The Mascot of the Asbury Park High School is "The Bishops."
*[[Asbury, New Jersey]], an unincorporated community in [[Warren County, New Jersey|Warren County]] is named after the bishop.<ref>Hutchinson, Viola L. [http://mapmaker.rutgers.edu/356/nj_place_names_origin.pdf#page=7 ''The Origin of New Jersey Place Names''], New Jersey Public Library Commission, May 1945. Accessed August 27, 2015.</ref>
*The former Asbury Methodist Church on [[Staten Island]] (now the Son-Rise Interfaith Center) stands as a monument to his memory.
*In 1796 Bishop Asbury helped lay the cornerstone for the church in Hall's Mills, NJ which shortly changed its name to Asbury (now a village in Franklin Township, Warren County, NJ).
*[[Asbury AME Church]] in [[Chester, Pennsylvania]] was founded in 1845 and renamed the church in honor of Asbury in 1863
*A statue, [[Francis Asbury (Lukeman)|Francis Asbury]], was erected in [[Washington, D.C.]] in 1921.
*A statue of Francis Asbury on horseback was erected at Drew University in Madison, NJ.
*The Francis Asbury Trail at [[Lake Junaluska, North Carolina|Lake Junaluska, NC]] was constructed around 1930.
*A hiking trail in the [[Great Smoky Mountains National Park]] follows part of the path Asbury took when crossing the mountains in the early 19th century. There is a monument dedicated to Asbury at Shiloh Memorial Cemetery in [[Pigeon Forge, Tennessee]], where Asbury delivered a sermon on October 20, 1808.
*[[Stratosphere Balloon Cave]] in [[Germany Valley]], West Virginia was for over 150 years called "Asbury Cave". (Asbury records his 1781 visit to the cave in his ''Journal''.)
* Many towns and villages bear an Asbury United Methodist Church, including the fourth largest United Methodist Church in the denomination, located in Tulsa, OK.
* The first Methodist Church in Northern China, the Asbury Church in Peking, built in 1870 by Rev. [[Hiram Harrison Lowry]], was named after Asbury. Today the church is known as Chongwenmen Church (崇文门教堂).
* Asbury Avenue in Evanston, Illinois, home of Northwestern University, founded by Methodists
* [[Asbury, Iowa]] was founded by Methodists.
* Asbury Road and Asbury Avenue in Ocean Grove, NJ, next to Asbury Park, with Wesley Lake separating them,is a town founded by Methodists in the late 1870s as a religious summer camp along the mid Atlantic coast.Descendants of the original campers still use the many tents in town each season and worship in the Great Auditorium.
* Asbury Street in the second Ocean Grove, a seaside town established by Methodists in mid 1800s, in Victoria Australia.
* Asbury Road, built around 1930 on the [[Friar Park]] housing estate near Asbury's birthplace
* The [[World War II]] [[Liberty Ship]] {{SS|Francis Asbury}} was named in his honor.
*He wrote the constitution for and organized the Female Orphan Society of Norfolk, Virginia on March 24, 1804.<ref>warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/southerncharities project/database/state/virginia/norfolkfos/</ref>