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 ...

Lafayette’s tour started in New York and went up to Maine before looping back west and south. He visited all 24 states over the course of 13 months and received a hero’s welcome continuously ...

the return visit of the Marquis de Lafayette to the United States for the first time since the American Revolution. And even though "The Hero Of Two Worlds," as he was known, had no plans to come ...

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

Jan. 2, 1996: Thelma Champion Beeler, a longtime teacher at Lafayette High School, dies. Beeler started her teaching career in a two-room school house in Mount Zion when she was just 14.

This year marks the Bicentennial, 2024-2025, of Lafayette and his farewell tour, “Guest of the Nation”, which took place August 15, 1824-September 7, 1825. To commemorate the occasion, the LaGrange ...

For his involvement in both the American and French revolutions, he is remembered as “The Hero of the Two Worlds.” Lafayette ...