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===United States=== * [[Bayonne, New Jersey]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bayonneonline.com/bayonne/history.htm/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305121648/http://www.bayonneonline.com/bayonne/history.htm/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=5 March 2016 |title=Bayonne Online The first reference to Bayonne in history is in 1609 when Henry Hudson stopped there before proceeding on his journey up the river which would later bear his name. He called this tip of the peninsula which jutted out into Newark Bay, "Bird's Point". The Dutch as part of New Amsterdam later claimed this land, along with New York and the rest of New Jersey. In 1646, the land was granted to Jacob Jacobson Roy, a gunner at the fort in New Amsterdam (now Manhattan), and named "Konstapel's Hoeck" (Gunner's Point in Dutch). In 1654, additional grants were given and shelters were built as centers for trading with the Leni-Lennapes. Soon, they became enraged with the Dutch trading tactics, and drove out the settlers. A peace treaty was arranged in 1658, and the Dutch returned. |date=5 March 2016| access-date=7 January 2020 }}</ref> * Four-term Republican United States Representative [[Howard Buffett|Howard Homan Buffett]] was of Huguenot descent. * [[Charleston, South Carolina]], is home to the only active [[Huguenot Church|Huguenot congregation]] in the United States * [[John Sevier]], the first governor of the state of Tennessee, and the only governor of the [[State of Franklin]] was of Huguenot descent. * In 1924, the US issued a [[United States commemorative coins|commemorative]] [[Half dollar (United States coin)|half dollar]], known as the "[[Huguenot-Walloon half dollar]]",<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.commem.com/prod08hug.htm |title=Huguenot Half Dollar |publisher=Commem.com |access-date=2 August 2010}}</ref> to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the Huguenots' settlement in what is now the United States. * [[Frenchtown, New Jersey]], part of the larger [[Delaware River Valley]], was a settling area in the early 1700s. * The neighborhood of [[Huguenot, Staten Island|Huguenot]] in New York City's borough of [[Staten Island]], straddling Huguenot Avenue * Huguenot Memorial Park in Jacksonville, Florida.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www1.cbn.com/ChurchWatch/archive/2008/07/02/444-years-the-huguenot-christians-in-america|title=444 Years: The Massacre of the Huguenot Christians in America|date=2 July 2008|website=CBN.com β The Christian Broadcasting Network|access-date=15 April 2018}}</ref> * The early leaders [[John Jay]] and [[Paul Revere]] were of Huguenot descent. * [[Francis Marion]], an [[American Revolutionary War]] guerrilla fighter in South Carolina, was of predominantly Huguenot ancestry. * [[New Paltz, New York]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.huguenotstreet.org/|title=Historic Huguenot Street|access-date=30 April 2016}}</ref> * [[New Rochelle, New York]], named for the city of [[La Rochelle]], a known former Huguenot stronghold in France. The Huguenot and Historical Association of New Rochelle was organized in 1885 for the purpose of perpetuating the history of its original Huguenot settlers. The mascot of [[New Rochelle High School]] is the Huguenot; and one of the main streets in the city is called Huguenot Street. * [[John Pintard]] (1759β1854), a descendant of Huguenots and prosperous New York City merchant who was involved in various New York City organizations. Pintard was credited with establishing the modern conception of [[Santa Claus]]. * [[Arthur C. Mellette]] (23 June 1842 β 25 May 1896), the last governor of the Dakota territory and the first governor of South Dakota was of Huguenot descent. * [[Charles Shumway]] (1806β1898), an early member of [[the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]], member of the [[Council of Fifty]] and part of the [[Utah Territorial Legislative Assembly|Utah Legislature]] for one term in 1851, was a descendent of Huguenot settlers. * In [[Richmond, Virginia]], and the neighboring [[Chesterfield County, Virginia|Chesterfield County]], there is a Huguenot Road. A Huguenot High School in Richmond and Huguenot Park in Chesterfield County, along with several other uses of the name throughout the region, commemorate the early refugee settlers. * The Manakintown Episcopal Church in Midlothian, Virginia serves as a National Huguenot Memorial. * Walloon Settlers Memorial (located in [[The Battery (Manhattan)|Battery Park]]) is a monument given to the City of New York by the Belgian Province of Hainaut in honor of the inspiration of [[JessΓ© de Forest]] in founding New York City. Baron de Cartier de Marchienne, representing the government and Albert I, King of Belgium, presented the monument to Mayor John F. Hylan, for the City of New York 18 May 1924. * [[Huguenot Fort|Oxford, Massachusetts]]
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