Marquis de Lafayette Returns to Arlington: 200th Commemoration

Name: Marquis de Lafayette Returns to Arlington: 200th Commemoration
Start: 2025-01-09T19:00:00-05:00
Location: Reinsch Library

Schedule

Thu, 09 Jan, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Reinsch Library | Arlington, VA

Celebrate the bicentennial of the Marquis de Lafayette’s visit to Arlington House and the new Capital City area in 1825 with Elizabeth Reese, author of “Marquis de Lafayette Returns: A Tour of America’s National Capitol Region.” This event is offered in -e\person on the Marymount main campus or virtually via Zoom. See website for details on both ways to attend: https://arlhist.org/event/marquis-de-lafayette-returns-to-arlington-250th-commemoration/
Against the backdrop of a tumultuous election, a beloved hero of the American Revolution returned to America for the first time in forty years. From August 1824 to September 1825, the Marquis de Lafayette traveled throughout the United States, welcomed by thousands of admirers at each stop along the way. Although the tour brought him to each state in the Union, the majority of his time was spent in Washington, D.C., Virginia, and Maryland.