Presentation & Presents!

Lafayette’s Farewell Tour 

 Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania & Washington D.C.

 (New York is on a separate page, please scroll down)

The American Friends of Lafayette are presenting events including reenactments at each location on the same dates. Visit Lafayette200.org for information! 

New Jersey

·  September 24, 1824 – Visits the Peace Tavern at Rahway, New Jersey

1825

• July 14 – Lafayette attends a banquet held in his honor at Sansay House in Morristown, New Jersey.
• July 15 – Lafayette attends a reception at Waverly House in then Bottle Hill, now Madison, New Jersey, on his way to Springfield.

July 16 – Lafayette arrives in Philadelphia for his second visit of the tour on SS Delaware from Bordentown, NJ.

·  July 14 – Lafayette attends a banquet held in his honor at Sansay House in Morristown, New Jersey

·  July 15 – Lafayette attends a reception at Waverly House in then Bottle Hill, now Madison, New Jersey, on his way to Springfield.

·  July 16 – Lafayette arrives in Philadelphia for his second visit of the tour on SS Delaware from Bordentown, NJ.

Pennsylvania

·  September 28, 1824 – Visit to Philadelphia with a parade followed by speeches at the State House (Independence Hall) under Philadelphia architect William Strickland's Triumphal Arches

1825

·  January 31 – Visits Perseverance Lodge #21 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

• May 25 – Visited Washington, Pennsylvania dining at The George Washington Hotel and staying at the Globe Inn
• May 26 - Visited Uniontown, Pennsylvania, greeted by Albert Gallatin at the Fayette County Courthouse. 
• May 29 – Visited Brownsville, Pennsylvania attended a meeting of Brownsville Lodge No. 60 F&AM and dinner held in his honor.
• May 29 – Visited Braddock, Pennsylvania
• May 30–31 – Stayed in Pittsburgh
• June 1 – Arrived in Butler, Pennsylvania
• June 2 – Stayed overnight in Waterford at Reed's Hotel. After breakfast shown Eagle Hotel (under construction) Escorted to Erie by Colonel Colt and distinguished party.
• June 3 – Visited the home of Judah Colt (Burgess of Erie) Erie, Pennsylvania
• July 20 – Lafayette visits Germantown and Chestnut Hill, near Philadelphia.
• July 25 – Lafayette leaves Philadelphia on the SS Delaware for Wilmington, Delaware.
• July 26 – Lafayette departs Chester, Pennsylvania, for the Brandywine Battlefield, ending the day in West Chester.
• July 27 – Departs West Chester for Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Delaware

·  October 6, 1824 – Escorted to Wilmington, Delaware, by the Grand Lodge of Delaware Masons

·  New Castle, Delaware October 6, 1824

Maryland

·  October 8 to October 11 – Toured Baltimore and met with surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution

·  December 17 – Arrives at Annapolis, Maryland, at 3 pm, is received in the Senate chamber and visits Fort Severn

·  December 20 – Received at the Maryland State House

·  December 24 – Arrives at the Jug Bridge crossing the Monocacy River on the National Road east of Frederick, Maryland

1825

January 19– Visits Baltimore and leaves January 20 on a steamboat bound for Norfolk, on his way to visit the legislature of Virginia at Richmond

·  Late July – Departs Lancaster for Baltimore, Maryland, via Port Deposit and Havre de Grace, Maryland. Spends two days in Baltimore.

Washington, D.C.

·  October 12 – Arrives in Washington, D.C., paraded into town, welcomed by the mayor in the U.S. Capitol rotunda, and celebrated with illuminations throughout the city and with a rocket show.

·  Early December – Stays in Washington, D.C., visiting the White House, meeting several times with President Monroe and George Washington's relatives; visits the Washington Navy Yard

·  December 8 and 9 – Makes official visits to the Senate and addresses Congress at the House of Representatives

·  December 15 – Feted at the first commencement ceremony of the Columbian College in the District of Columbia (now the George Washington University)

• September 6 – Lafayette arrives in Washington, D.C., where he meets the new U.S. President John Quincy Adams, addresses a joint session of Congress and celebrates his 68th birthday at a White House banquet with President Adams.
• September 7 – Lafayette leaves Washington, D.C., en route to France on the frigate USS Brandywine.

Virginia

·  October 17 – Visits Mount Vernon and George Washington's tomb in Virginia

·  October 18–19 – Arrives by steamer in Petersburg, Virginia, for visit to Yorktown and festivities marking the 43rd anniversary of the battle; spent eight days in the Tidewater of Virginia (Norfolk and Portsmouth) area. This was one of his longest stays of the grand tour because it was the site of the American and French victory over the British at Yorktown.. He visited Williamsburg, Virginia and the College of William & Mary from October 19–22 and stayed in the Peyton Randolph House in Williamsburg. He attended an honorary banquet at Raleigh Tavern with Chief Justice John Marshall and Secretary of War John Calhoun. His party rode to Jamestown, Virginia and traveled to Portsmouth to see Norfolk Naval Shipyard. While in Hampton Roads, he visited the unfinished Fort Monroe, and then Colonel Abraham Eustis escorted him to inspect the Old Point Comfort stronghold, which had been designed by French-born engineer Simon Bernard. On October 25, he left the Tidewater area on a ship bound for Richmond.

·  October 22 – Arrives in Norfolk, Virginia via steamer from Petersburg and spends four days there and in Portsmouth

·  October – Arrives in Richmond, Virginia, on a steamer from Norfolk. Edgar Allan Poe is in the youth honor guard in Richmond that welcomed him when he arrived. Lafayette briefly reunites with James Armistead Lafayette when he spots him amongst the crowd of people.

·  On November 2 – Left Richmond for Monticello to visit Jefferson.

·  November 8 – Attends a public banquet at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville[38]

·  November 20, 21, 22 – visits Fredericksburg, VA with several parties in his honor, including 2 in City Hall, now the Fredericksburg Area Museum. 

1825

• August 23 – Lafayette attends celebratory dinner hosted by Richard Basye in Jeffersonton, Va.
• Late August – Lafayette returns to Mount Vernon.

Massachusetts

1825

·  June 13 – Arrived in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, and was received and gave speech to an audience at the Congregational Church located in the Park Square Historic District (Pittsfield, Massachusetts) later dining at Joseph Merrick Coffee House before leaving.

·  June 17 – Laid the cornerstone of the Bunker Hill Monument during celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill in Charlestown, Boston, Massachusetts, accompanied by Daniel Webster, who gives a rousing speech.