Lafayette Farewell Tour

Lafayette Farewell Tour American States (1824-1825)

The 24 states visited : Alabama, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine (ex-Massachusetts / North part), Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia. Plus Washington D.C.

DETAILED TIMELINE

1824

July 1824

• July 13 – Lafayette leaves France.

August 1824

• August 15 – Staten Island, New York.
• August 16 – New York City landing at Castle Garden.
• August 20 –New York City to Bridgeport/Connecticut, (Harlem, New Rochelle, Byram Bridge and Putnam Hill in Greenwich, Stamford, Norwalk, Saugatuck (Westport) and Fairfield)
• August 21–24 – New Haven/Connecticut; Providence/Rhode Island; Stoughton/ Massachusetts; and Boston/Mass
• August 25 – Cambridge, Massachusetts. Quincy/Mass. (Former president John Adams « Peacefield »)
• August 31 – Lexington, Concord, Salem, Marblehead, Newburyport, / Massachusetts.

September 1824

• September 1 – Portsmouth/New Hampshire.
• September 2 – Boston and Lexington/Massachusetts.
• September 3 – Worcester/Massachusetts, and Tolland/Connecticut.
• September 4 – Hartford and Middletown/Connecticut.
• September 5 – New York City.
• September 11 –New York City
• September 16 –Poughkeepsie/New York
• September 24 –Newburgh/New York.
• September 28 –Philadelphia/Pennsylvania

October 1824

• October 6 – Wilmington/Delaware
• October 12 –District of Columbia.^[16]
• October 15 –Arlington House, and Washington/D.C. at night
• October 17 – Mount Vernon/Virginia
• October 18–19 – Petersburg/Virginia, for visit to Yorktown/Virginia
• October 19–22 – Williamsburg/Virginia
• October 22 – Norfolk/Virginia, Portsmouth/Virginia.
• October – Richmond/Virginia,

November 1824

• November 4 –Monticello/Virginia (former President Thomas Jefferson).
• November 8 – Charlottesville/Virginia

December 1824

• Early December – Washington/D.C.
• December 15 – Washington/D.C.
• December 17 – Annapolis/Maryland (visits Fort Severn).
• December 24 – Frederick, Maryland. (« Jug Bridge » crossing the Monocacy River on the National Pike).

1825

January 1825

• January 1 – Washington/D.C. (Congress)
• January 19 – Baltimore to Norfolk and Richmond/Virginia
• January 31 – Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (Perseverance Lodge #21)

February 1825

• February 23 –Suffolk/Virginia and Halifax/North Carolina (sandy « Lower Road » from Richmond to Raleigh)
• February 25 -Lafayette granted Poulson’s Advertiser an interview.
• February 26—Murfreesboro/North Carolina (first overnight in NC)
• February 27 – Northampton/NC (now the town of Jackson) and Halifax NC
• February 28 – Enfield/North Carolina (brief stop at home of Joseph Branch and Tar River at the falls (now Rocky Mount). Night at Rogers Crossroads/NC

March 1825

• March 1. Fayetteville/North Carolina
• March 2–3 – Raleigh, North Carolina
• March 15 –Charleston, South Carolina,
• March 18 – Beaufort, South Carolina, (John Mark Verdier House)
• March 19 –Savannah, Georgia.
• March 21 –Savannah, Georgia. (Johnson Square, memorial General Nathanael Greene)
• March 23 – Augusta/Georgia (up the Savannah River by steamboat)
• March 25 – Warrenton, Georgia (along the Milledgeville Stage Road)
• March 26 – Sparta, Georgia
• March 27 – Milledgeville, Georgia (capital of Georgia since 1804). Night at the Gachet house, Lamar County/Georgia.
• March 29 – Macon/Georgia (visits the Old Creek Indian agency in Crawford County, Georgia)
• March 30 – Night in a bark-covered log cabin (now in Chattahoochee County)
• March 31 – Crosses the Chattahoochee River into Alabama and stays in Fort Mitchell. Route west to Montgomery via military escort through Creek territory.

April 1825

• April 3 – Montgomery/Alabama
• April 4–6 – boards two boats, the Balize, and the Henderson, over the Alabama River (Selma, Cahaba, meet the French Vine and Olive refugee colony (now Demopolis). A brief stop in Claiborne.
• April 7 – Mobile/Alabama
• April 8 – boards steamboat down Mobile Bay to Mobile Point/Alabama and the original steamer Natchez (built in 1823) to New Orleans/Louisiana
• April 11 – Chalmette/Louisiana. New Orleans lodges in the Cabildo
• April 15 – On the steamer Natchez up the Mississippi River towards Baton Rouge/Louisiana
• April 16 – Brief stop Duncan’s Point, and Baton Rouge for a reception.
• April 18 – Natchez/Mississippi.
• April 28 – Carondelet/Missouri.
• April 29 – Louis/Missouri.
• April 30 – Kaskaskia, Illinois, (once the French capital of Upper Louisiana).

May 1825

• May 4 – Nashville/Tennessee.
• May 8–9 – The steamboat Mechanic, conveying Lafayette to Louisville/Kentucky, sinks on the Ohio. New steamboat Paragon.
• May 11 –Louisville/Kentucky . Jeffersonville/ Indiana. (Lafayette crosses the Ohio River from Louisville to spend a day He returns to Louisville that evening)
• May 12–13 – Louisville/Kentucky
• May 14 – Frankfort/Kentucky.
• May 15 – Lexington/Kentucky.
• May 16–17 – Lexington/Kentucky
• May 18 –Georgetown/Kentucky.
• May 19–20 – Cincinnati/Ohio.
• May 21 –Maysville/Kentucky.
• May 22 –Gallipolis/Ohio (Our House Tavern)
• May 24 – Wheeling/Virginia
• May 25 – Washington/Pennsylvania
• May 29 – Visits Braddock/Pennsylvania
• May 30–31 –Pittsburgh/Pennsylvania

June 1825

• June 1 –Butler/Pennsylvania.
• June 4 – Buffalo/New-York at Lafayette Square. (Lafayette follows Erie Canal from Buffalo across New York)
• June 7 – Rochester/New York.
• ………………
• June 17- Charlestown-Boston/Massachusetts. Lafayette lays the cornerstone of Bunker Hill Monument
• June 22- Dover, New Hampshire
• June 23 -South Berwick/Maine, Saco/Maine,  Biddeford/Maine
• June 24 – Scarborough/Maine, Portland, Maine
• June 27 –Concord, New Hampshire and Claremont, New Hampshire.
• June 28—crosses into Vermont at the Cornish Passing through Woodstock, Barnard and Royalton, Vermont. Passes through Randolph, Barre to large festivities in Montpelier at The Pavilion.
• June 29-Burlington/Vermont. Lays Cornerstone UVM. Departs 12 hours after. Arrives to Whitehall/New York in the morning June 30.

July 1825

• July 14 – Morristown/ New Jersey.
• July 15 – Bottle Hill/New Jersey (now Madison) on his way to Springfield.
• July 20 –Germantown and Chestnut Hill/Pennsylvania
• July 25 –Wilmington, Delaware.
• July 26 – Chester/Pennsylvania, Brandywine Battlefield/PA West Chester/PA
• July 27 – Lancaster/Pennsylvania.
• Late July –Baltimore/Maryland, via Port Deposit and Havre de Grace, Maryland. Spends two days in Baltimore.

August 1825

• Late August – Lafayette returns to Mount Vernon/Virginia

September 1825

• September 6 – Washington, D.C.
• September 7 – Lafayette leaves Washington and returns to France on the frigate USS Brandywine.

crédit: Wikipedia.org