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A curated U.S. directory of towns, roads, waterways, buildings, institutions and historic sites carrying the exact Fonda name, emphasizing documented family connections and places still visible today.

Collage of places bearing the Fonda name across the United States
Places associated with the Fonda name across America, from Mohawk Valley settlements to communities and landmarks farther west. Interpretive collage.
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Strongest historical and family connections

These places have the best combination of documented background, probable or direct family connection, and present-day visibility.

Towns & Communities

Fonda, New York

A Mohawk Valley village named for Douw Jellis Fonda, standing on the site of the earlier Caughnawaga settlement and central to several of the family’s most important New York stories.

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Buildings & Historic Sites

Fonda House (Douw Fonda House), Cohoes, New York

A rare early-eighteenth-century brick house in Cohoes, New York, closely associated with the Fonda family and recognized on the National Register of Historic Places.

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Buildings & Historic Sites

Henry DeWitt Fonda House, Boulder, Colorado

A nineteenth-century Fonda family residence at 827 Pine Street, preserving an important connection between the family's Mohawk Valley origins and the settlement of Boulder, Colorado.

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Buildings & Historic Sites

Fonda Cemetery (Caughnawaga Cemetery), Fonda, New York

A historic village cemetery overlooking the Mohawk Valley, preserving the graves and memorials of early Fonda family members, Revolutionary War veterans, and generations of Caughnawaga residents.

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Buildings & Historic Sites

Fonda Tavern Historic Site, Fonda, New York

A historic Mohawk Valley tavern built about 1781 by John Fonda, a member of the Tryon County Militia, and remembered through a surviving historical photograph and a New York State historical marker.

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Public Venues & Institutions

John Fonda Gallery at Theatre Project, Baltimore, Maryland

A Baltimore contemporary-art gallery dedicated in 1993 to John Arthur Fonda (1929–1992), an artist, ceramicist, teacher, and curator remembered for his encouragement of fellow artists.

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Public Venues & Institutions

Henry Fonda Theatre, Los Angeles, California

A historic Hollywood Boulevard theatre opened in 1926 as the Music Box, renamed in 1985 to honor actor Henry Fonda, and today one of Los Angeles's established live-music venues.

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Public Venues & Institutions

Fonda Speedway, Fonda, New York

The historic half-mile dirt racing oval at the Montgomery County Fairgrounds, known as the “Track of Champions,” with roots in nineteenth-century horse racing and a landscape closely associated with the early Fonda family.

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Buildings & Historic Sites

Fonda Reformed Church, Fonda, New York

A historic Reformed congregation whose origins reach back to colonial Caughnawaga, with connections to the early Fonda family and more than two centuries of Mohawk Valley religious history.

Buildings & Historic Sites

Fonda Tavern Historic Site, Fonda, New York

A historic Mohawk Valley tavern built about 1781 by John Fonda, a member of the Tryon County Militia, and remembered through a surviving historical photograph and a New York State historical marker.

Buildings & Historic Sites

Henry DeWitt Fonda House, Boulder, Colorado

A nineteenth-century Fonda family residence at 827 Pine Street, preserving an important connection between the family's Mohawk Valley origins and the settlement of Boulder, Colorado.

Public Venues & Institutions

Fonda Fairgrounds, Fonda, New York

Historic home of the Fonda Fair and Montgomery County Agricultural Society, with an agricultural tradition dating to 1841 and a lasting connection to the early Fonda settlement along the Mohawk River.

Public Venues & Institutions

Fonda Speedway, Fonda, New York

The historic half-mile dirt racing oval at the Montgomery County Fairgrounds, known as the “Track of Champions,” with roots in nineteenth-century horse racing and a landscape closely associated with the early Fonda family.

Public Venues & Institutions

Fonda-Fultonville Central School, Fonda, New York

A Mohawk Valley school district formed in 1953, with educational roots reaching into the eighteenth century and a documented connection to Albert Dow Fonda, who helped promote school consolidation and served on its Board of Education.

Towns & Communities

Fonda's Bush (Broadalbin), New York

An early Mohawk Valley frontier settlement named for Major Jelles Douw Fonda, whose historic place-name survives in accounts of the community now known as Broadalbin, New York.

Towns & Communities

Fonda, Iowa

A nineteenth-century railroad community in Pocahontas County, Iowa, named in 1874 after Fonda, New York, and preserving an unusual geographical connection to the historic Fonda family of the Mohawk Valley.

Towns & Communities

Fonda, New York

A Mohawk Valley village named for Douw Jellis Fonda, standing on the site of the earlier Caughnawaga settlement and central to several of the family’s most important New York stories.

Water & Landforms

Fonda Lake, Brighton, Michigan

A historic Livingston County lake associated with Lewis B. Fonda (1807–1886), an early Brighton Township settler, landowner, farmer, and civic official whose family established a permanent home beside the lake during the 1830s.

Towns & Communities

Fonda, North Dakota

A former Soo Line railroad settlement established in 1905 and named for Fonda, Iowa, preserving a three-state geographical connection to the original Fonda family settlement in New York.

Towns & Communities

Fonda, Oklahoma

A former rural community in Dewey County, Oklahoma, with a post office established in 1903, a family-operated general store, and a documented place in the history of Oklahoma Territory.

Towns & Communities

Fonda, Vermont

A historic railroad and industrial locality in Swanton, Vermont, named for the lime-manufacturing operations of William Beecher Fonda (1846–1917), an important nineteenth-century St. Albans businessman.

Towns & Communities

Fonda, Wyoming

A small mapped locality in Goshen County, Wyoming, preserving the Fonda name in the geography of the American High Plains. The origin of the name and any connection to the documented Fonda family remain uncertain.

Water & Landforms

Fonda Lake (now Lake Kora), New York

A secluded Adirondack lake historically known as Lake Tuscarora, Sumner Lake, and Fonda Lake, later renamed Lake Kora and associated with the celebrated Great Camp known as Kamp Kill Kare.

Roads & Streets

Fonda Way, Los Angeles, California

Fonda Way is a short residential street in the Lincoln Heights neighborhood of northeastern Los Angeles, California, near East Avenue 28, Johnston Street, and Clifton Street.