Wednesday and Thursday of this week mark the 200th anniversary of Revolutionary War hero General Marquis de Lafayette’s tour ...

Is there a fortune of gold at the bottom of the Ohio River between Cannelton and Hawesville? Here’s why I ask. General Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier Lafayette, a French hero of the ...

On Feb. 23, the Suffolk Visitor Center will commemorate the arrival of Lafayette at the site of the former Nansemond County ...

Lafayette’s Bicentennial Farewell Tour will end in June when, just as he did during his tour 200 years ago, he heads into ...

where Lafayette landed on his way from Utica on June 11, 1825. “Two hundred years ago, Lafayette was only in the City of Schenectady for a couple hours. They were showing off the Erie Canal ...

JACKSON – On Thursday, Feb. 27 the Town of Jackson will celebrate the Bicentennial of Marquis de Lafayette’s farewell tour visit to Northampton Courthouse (present day Jackson). Ranked teams are on ...

Lafayette’s 1824-1825 farewell journey was a rapidly paced, well-received tour. Travel was by carriage, horseback and steamboat. Many stops along the way were unscheduled. Americans turned out ...