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Big Red history expert Corey Ryan Earle \u201907 contemplates the many towns, streets\u2014even an asteroid!\u2014named for our alma mater<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Corey Ryan Earle \u201907<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I\u2019m fond of saying that \u201cCornell is everywhere.\u201d Wherever you go, you can find evidence of the University\u2019s impact on the world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if you look at a map, you\u2019ll find that Cornell is, in fact, ubiquitous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Towns and roads across the U.S. are named after the University or its founder, making it possible to take a Cornell-to-Cornell, coast-to-coast road trip\u2014from Cornell Avenue off Half Moon Bay, CA, to Cornell Road in Jacksonville, FL, less than 20 miles from the ocean\u2014with plenty of Cornells in between.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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A tour of namesakes might start at the top: Cornell Peak in the San Jacinto Mountains outside Palm Springs, CA. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to one story, the geologist who mapped them in the 1890s was at one point joined by a colleague, Robert Hill 1886, who thought this particular peak was reminiscent of the clocktower at his alma mater.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(He was presumably speaking of the McGraw Hall campanile, not McGraw Tower, which wasn\u2019t built until several years after he graduated.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cornell Peak, in Southern California’s San Jacinto Mountains.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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For transportation on your Cornell journey, I recommend the Fairchild PT-26, or Cornell plane; thousands of these inexpensive aircraft were built to teach pilots during World War II.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Per the British military\u2019s convention, trainer aircraft were named after educational institutions\u2014so American-made ones used by the Royal Canadian Air Force received names like Cornell, Harvard, and Yale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Cornell trainer.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

(For the record: we\u2019re skipping Cornell, CA, an unincorporated community outside L.A. that\u2019s little more than a ghost town today. Some versions of its origin story say Ezra sent books and supplies to start a schoolhouse, while others hold that the town\u2019s founder selected the name\u2014but he had no apparent connection to the University, and the tale of Ezra\u2019s gift is likely apocryphal.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can also fly your Cornell aircraft right over Cornell College, in Iowa; it\u2019s not named for Ezra or his university, but does have its own unique Cornell connection<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You can fly your Cornell aircraft right over Cornell College, in Iowa; it\u2019s not named for Ezra or his university, but does have its own unique Cornell connection.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Instead, head to Cornell, WI, a small town established in 1903, when its post office opened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt is the intention and desire that this post office be named \u2018Cornell\u2019 in memory of Ezra Cornell,\u201d said its application to the postal service, adding: \u201cThe history of the Cornell University lands in Wisconsin forms a large part of the material history of Cornell University.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There are Cornell Streets all over the country\u2014including this one near Collegetown.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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This refers to the Wisconsin pinelands that comprised a significant portion of the acreage that the federal government distributed to New York State through the Morrill Land-Grant Act of 1862.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That land and the income it generated, managed by Ezra and his associates, gave Cornell its financial foundation\u2014and the town\u2019s founding postmaster was one of the agents who represented the University in its land dealings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Heading northeast brings us to the town of Cornell, MI\u2014population 565\u2014in the Upper Peninsula. Its co-founder was George Mashek 1891, a lumberman who demonstrated his Big Red pride by naming the new community after his alma mater.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(If you need a snack during your travels, pack some Cornell bread<\/a>; the 1940s recipe, developed by nutrition professor Clive McKay, is hearty and nutritious. Just watch out for bees\u2014like Andrena cornelli,<\/em> named for the university because the original reference specimen was discovered in the area. And I hope you\u2019ve been taking notes on your trip. Might I suggest Cornell Notes<\/a>?)<\/p>\n<\/div>

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The U.S. is also filled with Cornell avenues, drives, and roads, often found among clusters of similarly named roadways near universities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The U.S. is filled with Cornell avenues, drives, and roads, often found among clusters of similarly named roadways near universities.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

College Terrace, east of Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA, includes Cambridge, College, Oxford, and Stanford avenues running perpendicular to Amherst, Bowdoin, Columbia, Dartmouth, Hanover, Harvard, Oberlin, Princeton, Cornell, Wellesley, William, and Yale streets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Andrena cornelli.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>
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Appropriately, Cornell Street stands out. It\u2019s the only one not in alphabetical order\u2014since it was originally named Washington.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The many other examples of college-themed enclaves include Denver\u2019s University Hills and the College Park neighborhoods found in both Orlando, FL, and Red Hook, NY.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If your Cornellian odyssey takes you beyond the U.S., you might go by sea instead of air. Unfortunately, the S.S. Cornell<\/em>, S.S. Cornell Victory<\/em>, and S.S. Ezra Cornell<\/em><\/a> are no longer options<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Greenland makes a good next stop\u2014for a visit to the Cornell Glacier. In 1896, two Big Red geology professors and several students joined Admiral Robert Peary on a scientific expedition. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a result, the glacier was named on the northwest shore of Greenland\u2014as was Mount Schurman, for University president Jacob Gould Schurman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Cornell Glacier\u2014with Mount Schurman in the background\u2014during the 1896 Peary expedition.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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(The team\u2019s photographs of Greenland\u2019s glaciers remain an important resource for scholars, given changes in climate, and many plant and fungi specimens collected on the adventure are still held in Cornell\u2019s herbarium.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally, you\u2019ll need to make alternative travel plans if you\u2019re heading to asteroid 8250, named Cornell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1999, the Hill hosted the International Conference on Asteroids, Comets, and Meteors; a dozen minor planets were named for Cornellians affiliated with the event, in addition to one for the University itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The orbit (in white) of the Cornell asteroid.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

At the time, an official from the International Astronomical Union noted that the Cornell asteroid was aptly named: \u201cIt\u2019s inclined at 17 degrees, so it\u2019s highly inclined and slightly eccentric.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An expert on Big Red lore, <\/em>Corey Ryan Earle \u201907<\/em><\/strong><\/a> teaches \u201cThe First American University,\u201d a wildly popular spring semester course on Cornell history.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Top: The welcome sign in Cornell, WI. (Photo by Dan Mansoor \u201979, MBA \u201980.)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Published September 15, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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