Random historical footnote

Surprise! Today's random historical item isn't about the Civil War.



It's about Alexander Hamilton, first Treasury secretary of the United States, and face of the $10 bill.

I heard on the traffic report the other day, a mention of the Alexander Hamilton Bridge in New York.


So, New York named a bridge after him.

I guess that's what a state names after you when you're educated there, work there and represent it in politics and the military.

New Jersey also has a monument to him.

The Alexander Hamilton Service Area, which I mostly think of because it has a large restroom, the punch line to a rather unfortunate story involving several beers at a party, a long drive home and a two-hour traffic jam near the Queens-Midtown Tunnel.



I guess that's what a state names after you when you're shot to death there.