THORNBURY—On the exact day, Saturday July 26, 200 years later after a grand 1824-25 tour, Gen. Marquis de Lafayette triumphantly returned to Chester County and visited where he was wounded during the ...

The Lafayette Trail, Inc. is a nonprofit organization with the mission to document, map, and mark Gen. Marquis de Lafayette's footsteps during his Farewell Tour of the United States in 1824 and 1825.

The Town of Leesburg invites the public to a pop-up exhibit on Friday, Aug. 1, celebrating the 200th anniversary of the ...

The Marquis de Lafayette, a French nobleman who rushed to the aid of the United States in its darkest hours, and an audacious hero of two revolutions, was born on this day in history, Sept. 6, 1757.

In July of 1824, the Revolutionary War hero Marquis de Lafayette came back to America and toured the country. Public historians discussed the French noble's original visit and the event planned ...

Statues of George Washington, Marquis de Lafayette and Alexander Hamilton, look out over The Green as Washington holds a yellow rose while Hamilton wears a T-shirt on Oct. 28, 2021.

The Marquis de Lafayette sailed from Natchez to Caron­delet, Mo., between April 18 and April 28, 1825, on the steamboat Natchez. The Revolutionary War hero was on his return tour; when he arrived ...

Two hundred years ago, the Marquis de Lafayette, one of the greatest heroes in America’s fight for independence, began a 13-month “Guest of the Nation” tour of all 24 states.

Marquis de Lafayette, aka Benjamin Goldman, escorted by Gen. John Stark and his wife Molly are seen in Hampton Falls, celebrating the 200th bicentennial of Lafayette's farewell tour in America ...

The Marquis de Lafayette arrived at the John Langdon House after a journey down Pleasant Street in a horse-drawn carriage led by a Portsmouth Police escort and flanked by the color guard of the ...

Two hundred years ago, the Marquis de Lafayette, one of the greatest heroes in America’s fight for independence, began a 13-month “Guest of the Nation” tour of all 24 states. Following a ...

On Feb. 23, the Suffolk Visitor Center will commemorate the arrival of Lafayette at the site of the former Nansemond County Courthouse on the same route that the marquis traveled in a horse-drawn ...