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Marquis de Lafayette writes a letter to Uticans: A look back this week in history
Utica Observer-Dispatch via Yahoo News· 4 months ago1831, 193 years ago Lafayette letter The Marquis de Lafayette writes a letter to Uticans, thanking...
Jeffersonville part of Lafayette's bicentennial celebration
The Evening News and The Tribune, Jeffersonville, Ind. via Yahoo News· 8 months agoOct. 11—JEFFERSONVILLE — Jeffersonville is set to be part of a nationwide celebration honoring Marquis de Lafayette's trip to America nearly 200 years ago. Lafayette was a Frenchman who volunteered ...
Reeves to speak at LCHS meeting
The News Courier, Athens, Ala. via Yahoo News· 2 months agoApr. 12—Local author Jacque Reeves will be the guest speaker at the quarterly meeting of the Limestone County Historical Society on Sunday, April 21, at the Presbyterian Church Rodgers Center ...
Lafayette figures prominently in Apple TV+'s 'Franklin'. What's his connection to Erie?
Erie Times News via Yahoo News· 1 month agoAn exhibit celebrating the life of the Marquis de Lafayette opened this month at the Hagen History Center's Watson-Curtze Mansion. The traveling "Guest of the Nation" exhibit by the American ...
So nice they’re doing it twice: Fayetteville namesake to ‘tour’ again. Things to know
The Fayetteville Observer via Yahoo News· 11 months agoThe Marquis de Lafayette is the namesake for Fayetteville and a number of other cities and towns...
How Revolutionary War hero Lafayette is remembered in Canandaigua
Democrat and Chronicle via Yahoo News· 5 months agoCANANDAIGUA, NY — A brass band, “crowds of men, women and children” and “carriages loaded with...
The only 8 people to ever receive honorary American citizenship
WE ARE THE MIGHTY via Yahoo News· 9 months agoBritish Prime Minister Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), American general Dwight Eisenhower (1890 -...
You can now buy cognac inspired by Fayetteville's namesake at Cumberland County ABC stores
The Fayetteville Observer via Yahoo News· 8 months agoNearly 200 years after Fayetteville’s namesake visited the city in 1825, a liquor inspired by the...
Lafayette's Tallahassee and the French influence on Florida's capital city | TLH 200
Tallahassee Democrat via Yahoo News· 5 months agoLafayette Park’s historical significance goes back hundreds of years, to a time just after the...
Get dinner with Alexander Hamilton and Marquis de Lafayette at King’s Arms Tavern in Williamsburg
Daily Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoIf you could have dinner with anyone from the past, who would you pick? The King’s Arms Tavern selected a few Founding Fathers. Colonial Williamsburg is hosting a food series, Wine Dinner with ...