The Erie Canal Museum will host an event on Saturday, June 7 remembering the Revolutionary War hero, the Marquis de Lafayette, and his 1825 visit through Upstate New York.

GALLIPOLIS, OH (WOWK)- It has been 200 years since Revolutionary War Hero Marquis de Lafayette stepped foot in Gallipolis, Ohio, as a part of his farewell voyage tour across the then 24 states in ...

When he visited Erie on June 3,1825, Gilbert du Motier, the Marquis de Lafayette, was regaled with accounts of another hero's role in winning a second war with England.

Two hundred years ago in Lancaster, that was the news of the year. It was 1825 and the Marquis de Lafayette had embarked on his farewell tour of America. A French aristocrat, Lafayette was better ...

In this 1832 caricature, French artist Auguste-Jean-Jacques Hervieu scribbles away on his epic canvas portraying LaFayette’s arrival in Cincinnati, painting in many of his friends and patrons who ...

With "La Marseillaise" playing and spectators waving miniature French flags, the arrival of an actor portraying Marquis de Lafayette aboard the Riverie on the Genesee River was met with the pomp ...

Tom Milhollan, director of operations and development for the Washington County Historical Society, places a chair used by Marquis de Lafayette, which he sat in during his farewell tour through the ...

To celebrate the bicentennial of the Marquis de Lafayette’s 1824-1825 return to the United States, historic interpreter Michael Halbert portrays the statesman and general.

With the death of 101-year-old Anna Mae Robertson of Milwaukee, Lafayette native Fannie McClendon is now the last living link to an exceptional piece of World War II history.

People came together today for a celebration in Huntsville, honoring the hero of two worlds - Marquis de Lafayette.

Celebrating 200 years since the Marquis de Lafayette visited Lexington, plaques will be placed in two locations he visited in 1825.

The Marquis de Lafayette arrives in Onondaga early in the morning of June 9, 1825. This artwork was done by George Knapp and is part of Onondaga Historical Association collection. Courtesy of the ...