Legacy and Honors
- Several Navy ships have since been named in Truxtun's honor, see:
U.S. Navy ships named after Thomas Truxtun
- The town of Truxton, New York was named for him.
- Washington, D.C. once had a traffic circle, Truxton Circle, named after him. After it was demolished, the nearby neighborhood retains his name.
- Truxtun Park in the City of Annapolis, Maryland is named in his honor.
- Truxtun, in Portsmouth, Virginia, one of the first federally-funded planned communities in America was named for him. It was built shortly after World War I for African-American workers at Norfolk Naval Shipyard.
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