General Lafayette - Fountain

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Marker is at the intersection of North 4th Street and Main Street, on the left when traveling north on North 4th Street.

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General LaFayette

Marie Jean Paul Roch Yves Gilbert Motier Marquis de LaFayette (1757-1834) was born in the Castle of Chavagnac, in Auvergne, France. He entered the French Army early in life and in 1777 came to America and volunteered for service in ...

Lafayette

A lover of liberty, Lafayette left Bordeaux, France, March 26, 1777, “to conquer or perish” in the American cause, and arrived at Benjamin Huger’s summer home near here, June 14, 1777, where he spent his first night in America. He ...

General Marquis de Lafayette 1757 - 1834

Member Society of the Cincinnati of France. Presented jointly by the State Society of the Cincinnati and the City of York, Pennsylvania, this day January 27th 2007.

"Serving America is to my heart an inexpressible happiness"

General Marquis de Lafayette

Marker is at ...

The Battle of LaFayette

On June 18, 1864, during Gen. Sherman's campaign for Atlanta, Col. Louis D. Watkins, commanding the 3rd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division (US), occupied LaFayette with about 450 men of the 4th, 6th and 7th Kentucky cavalry regiments (US) "to endeavor ...

LaFayette Historical Lodge #65

This is one of the oldest continuously occupied buildings in LaGrange. In 1857, Lodge #65 of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of California was formed.

The Odd Fellows purchased the two story jail from the County in 1862 and it ...

Communipaw and Lafayette

Henry Hudson’s “Half Moon” anchored off Communipaw in 1609. In 1633 the Dutch West India Company built the first house occupied by “John the Laugher.” A small colony of Dutch houses and farms developed along the shore where water extended ...

Restoration of Jackson Place and Lafayette Square

White House Conference Center

[Sketch of townhouses along Jackson Place, NW - the western border of Lafayette Square - behind which the White House Conference Center was constructed in the 1960s & 70s.]

Dedicated to those whose spirit and vision ...

General Lafayette and his Compatriots

[north face:]

To General Lafayette

and his Compatriots

1777 - 1783

[south face:] By the

Congress

in commemoration

of the services

rendered by

General Lafayette

and his Compatriots

during the struggle

for the

Independence

of the

United States

of America

Lafayette Visit

On this site June 3, 1825, the great French & American patriot, Marquis de La Fayette (1757-1834), a Major General and aide to General George Washington during the American Revolution, was entertained in the French Street home of Erie Pioneer ...