Pierce (Pearce) Tavern and Barn

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Pierce (Pearce) Tavern and Barn

Pierce (a.k.a. Pearce) Tavern, where Lafayette spent a night in 1825. The 'Lafayette Elm' under which he greeted townspeople the next morning is shown. Library is now on this site.' There are two copies, one large, one small. Lafayette was on his way from Albany to Boston for the laying of the corner stone of the Bunker Hill Monument in Boston. View from Four Corners. The elm was cut down when the highway deparment widened Route #112 in the 1920s. The Worthington Historical Society planted a replacement elm tree around the mid 1990s. The tree is stll there, in front of the library today. For use in republication of Papers on the History of Worthington.

Photograph

13.3 x 11.1 cm (5.2 x 4.4 in)

2007-07-07

Box 05

Library