Lafayette House/Tavern and Lafayette Elm

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Lafayette House/Tavern and Lafayette Elm

Hotels, Taverns, Inns

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.' 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 department 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.

The Lafayette House was also known as the Pierce (Pearce) Tavern. It subsequently fell into ruin and was demolished. In June 1825 General Lafayette spent the night here and greeted the townspeople under the Lafayette elm which is no longer standing. The picture also shows a tree called 'Lafayette Elm'.

7 x 9.8 cm (2.8 x 3.9 in)

2007-07-07

Box 05