Namesakes and Monuments
The United States Navy has named several ships USS Bancroft, as well as the fleet ballistic missile submarine USS George Bancroft (SBN-643), after Bancroft, and the mid-19th century United States Coast Survey schooner USCS Bancroft also was named for him. The dormitory at the United States Naval Academy, Bancroft Hall, is named after him as well. Bancroft is one of 23 famous names on the $1 Educational currency note of 1896.
The name of Bancroft is found atop one of several marble pillars in the Thomas Jefferson Building of the United States Library of Congress in Washington, DC. It is believed this is attributed to George Bancroft.
In and around Worcester, Massachusetts, Bancroft's birthplace, many streets, businesses and monuments bear his name:
- Bancroft School, Worcester MA.
- Bancroft Hall at Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH.
- Bancroft Tower, which was erected in honor of him on Bancroft Tower Road Worcester, MA.
- Bancroft Commons, an apartment building in downtown Worcester, MA.
- Bancroft Motors, now owned by HARR Motor Company.
- Bancroft Street, Gardner, MA.
- Bancroft Street, Worcester, MA.
- Bancroft Elementary School, Minneapolis, MN.
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