(died in the Battle of the Big Hole) Logansport, Indiana – Captain Logan (Native American chief) Longmont, Colorado – Stephen Harriman Long (explorer) (indirectly, via Longs Peak) Longs Peak (Colorado) – Stephen Harriman Long (explorer) Longville, California – W.B. Long (early hotel and saw mill owner) Loomis, California – Jim Loomis (railroad agent, postmaster) Lorenzo, Texas – Lorenzo Dow Los Angeles – Our Lady the Queen of the Angels Loudon, New Hampshire – John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun (note spelling) Louisa, Virginia – Princess Louisa of Great Britain Louisiana – Louis XIV (King of France) Louisiana, Missouri – Louisiana Basye (daughter of local settlers) Louisville, Kansas – Louis Wilson (landowner's son) Louisville, Kentucky – Louis XVI of France Louisville, Mississippi – Col. Louis Wiston (settler) Loveland, Colorado – William A.H. Loveland (president of the Colorado Central Railroad) Lovell, Maine – Captain John Lovewell (note spelling) Lovelock, California – George Lovelock (early merchant) Lowell, Maine – Lowell Hayden (first person born in the town) Lowell, Massachusetts, Lowell, Michigan, and Lowell, North Carolina – Francis Cabot Lowell Lowville, New York – Nicholas Low Lubbock, Texas – Thomas Saltus Lubbock Lucas, Iowa – Robert Lucas (territorial governor) Ludington, Michigan – James Ludington (businessman) Ludlow, Kentucky – Israel Ludlow (pioneer) Lufkin, Texas – Abraham P. Lufkin (cotton merchant and Galveston city councilman) Lumpkin, Georgia – Gov. Wilson Lumpkin Lundy, California – W.J. Lundy (sawmill owner) Lunenburg, Massachusetts – from one of the titles of King George II of Great Britain, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg Lunenburg, Vermont – from one of the titles for Prince Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand of Brunswick-Lunenburg Lusk, Wyoming – Frank S. Lusk (rancher and Wyoming Central Railway stockholder) Lutesville, Missouri – Eli Lutes (founder) Luther, Michigan – B.T. Luther (sawmill owner) Luthersburg, Pennsylvania – W.H. Luther (resident) Lutherville, Maryland – Martin Luther (16th century German reformer) Lykens, Pennsylvania – Andrew Lycan (note the spelling) Lyman, Maine – Theodore Lyman (merchant) Lyman, New Hampshire – General Phineas Lyman (commander in the French and Indian War) Lyndeborough, New Hampshire – Benjamin Lynde (Chief Justice of Massachusetts after town was named) Lyndon, Vermont – Josias Lyndon (governor of Rhode Island) Lyons, Colorado – Edward S. Lyon (founder) Lyons, Kansas – Truman J. Lyon (landowner) Lyons, Nebraska – Waldo Lyon (resident) Lyonsdale, New York – Calen Lyon (settler) Lysander, New York – Lysander (Spartan military leader) M Mabbettsville, New York – James Mabbett (landowner) Macclenny,