The First White House of the Confederacy, at Montgomery Alabama

2005a-116

The First White House of the Confederacy, at Montgomery Alabama

On page 8 of booklet called "The First White House of the Confederacy, at Montgomery Alabama" there is a phoptograph and description of "The four-post bed made in New York 1790-1795. During General Lafayette's triumphal tour of America in 1825 when he was enroute from Albany to Boston to make a speech at the dedication of the Bunker Hill Monument, he spent the night at a tavern in the little town of Worthington known as the Pierce (a.k.a. Pearce) Tavern, and slept on this bed in the star bed-room." See also Annual Report 1974, Box 29b, 2004-a-238.

Document

15.2 x 22.9 cm (6 x 9 in)

1970

Worthington Historical Society

Paper

swu

Publication - Excerpt, Bed Room of Mrs. Jefferson Davis with Lafayette Bed

Unknown

2007-03-27

2012-10-05

Box 30a