#lafayette farewell tour board updates

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November 23, 1824

lafayette was in Washington DC

Also today a (small) picture frame fell on the board and bent my mini lafayette at the neck

which YOU SURVIVED THE FRENCH REVOLUTION DON’T DIE NOW

Source

the lafayette 200 website

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September 27, 1824

Lafayette was in Morrisville, Bristol, and Holmesburg Pennsylvania

also some unrelated-to-today’s-date fan art!

Sources

the Lafayette 200 website

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August 22, 1824

Lafayette was in Old Lyme, New London, Norwich, and Plainfield

More fan art!

So Lafayette saw someone wearing a glove with his face on it. He was weirded out

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November 24-28, 1824

lafayette was in Baltimore Maryland

HAPPY THANKSGIVING YALL!

*pulls out Samuel seabury scroll thing* *stands on a table* *clears throat*

I’ll like to thank a dead French guy with an excessively long name for changing my life

[hiidkwhatimdoing7525]

November 4- 14 (!), 1824

Lafayette was at Monticello and Charlottesville va!

Lafayette arrived at Boyd tavern before going to Monticello on the 4th.

on the 5th he was at the University of Virginia where a banquet was held

when Lafayette saw Jefferson again they were hugging and crying and all that. Lafayette stayed for 12 days, Madison also came to hang out. They talked about the past, Lafayette told him (once again) to free his slaves, and drank a shit ton of wine (Jefferson was 81 wtf)

Source

Lafayette 200

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November 3, 1824

Lafayette was in Columbia and Wilmington VA

Again, I'm using the same image because he's basically in the same spot, the map isn't big enough

tomorrow's going to be exciting!!!

Source

Lafayette 200 website

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November 14-19, 1824

On the 14th he was at Gordonsville and Orange And 15-19th he was at Montpelier

So I am actually doing the presidents weekend lafayette farewell tour events so a whole post on that that will cover all this soon!

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December 5 and 6, 1824

lafayette was at Woodlawn in Alexandria VA

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September 16, 1824

Lafayette was in Staatsburg and Clermont New York

Sources:

the Lafayette 200 website

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September 1, 1824

Lafayette was in Hampton Falls, Hampton, Greenland, Portsmouth (now New Hampshire)

it’s Septemberrrrr!!!

during his visit to Greenland, a street was named after him, in Portsmouth, he visited the Franklin Hall. He also reunited with a Revolutionary war veteran who had fought with and help carried Lafayette back because of leg wound in the battle of brandywine!

He also visited the Langdon house, the Portsmouth navy shipyard, and dined in Jefferson hall, they held the biggest banquet in Portsmouth history.

After a visit to the Warner house, he left Portsmouth.

Sources:

the Lafayette 200 website

(I am not even going to keep count on just how many times they’ve mentioned Georges Washington de Lafayette was named after Gwash anymore)

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August 19, 1824

Lafayette is still at Manhattan

this is one of the shorter posts so I’m gonna put some fan art here

Experimenting with some warm gray alcohol markers

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October 15th and 16th, 1824

the schedule got messed up a bit. on the 15th he was at Arlington and 16th, Alexandria

his first days in Virginia!

on the 15th he was at arlington house

and OH MY GOD i wanted originally to just reblog my last farewell tour post cuz this is technically a part 2 but I FOUND STUFF I NEED TO MAKE A NEW POST

So in Lafayette's welcome parade thing to Arlington, he was accompanied by george washington parke custis (Washington’s step grand son) and his son georges washington de lafayette. so 2 george washingtons and THEY KNOW EACHOTHER FROM WHEN GEORGES WAS STAYING AT MOUNT VERNON DURING THE FRENCH REVOLUTION!!!

Idk but that just seems really cute

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September 9-14, 1824

Lafayette was in Manhattan

he was in Manhattan the whole time why not just do it in one post?

the evening of September 8th he went to park theater. They had a reenactment of the battle of Yorktown there for him. In fact, Lafayette visited this place 4 times during his tour!

September 9th, he visited St. Paul’s chapel and city hall park

September 10th, he visited Free School number 3 and African Free School During his tour, he will be at schools a lot. Just saying, if Lafayette was watching me write an essay. HOW CAN I CONCENTRATE ON THE EASSAY???! adopt me Lafayette. He also visited the home of Nicholas Fish, another Amrev veteran.

September 11th, Lafayette attended a performance at the Chatham Garden Theatre.

September 12th, he visited trinity church, he accompanied Eliza Hamilton to visit Hamilton and Philip’s graves.

September 14th, they had a WHOLE DAMN FESTIVAL for him in castle garden. About 5000 people attended. They also made it look like his house in France a lot (la grange) which a onlooker recalled “[Lafayette] exclaimed, ‘Oh, ma maison! La Grange! La Grange!’

(Oh! My house! La Grange! La Grange!)

which WHY WAS IT SO ADORABLE??? He sound like an excited child ahhhhhh 🥹

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September 7, 1824

Lafayette was in Manhattan

he visited Columbia college, back then king’s college where Hamilton, John jay, and some other founding fathers when to school

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October 26-28, 1824

Lafayette was in Richmond, VA

Sources:

Lafayette200 website

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August 21, 1824

Lafayette was in Stratford, New Haven, East Haven, Branford, Guilford, Old Saybrook

Sources:

the Lafayette 200 website