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Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette (1757–1834), a French aristocrat and Revolutionary War hero, was widely commemorated in the U.S. and elsewhere. Below is a list of the many homages and/or tributes named in his honor:

Honors

In 1792, James McHenry, whom Lafayette considered a good friend, purchased a tract called Ridgely's Delight about a mile west of Baltimore. On it, he built a country seat on 95 acres and named it Fayetteville in his honor.^[1]
In 1824, the U.S. government named Lafayette Park in his honor; it lies immediately north of the White House in Washington, D.C.
In 1824, Lafayette was invited back to the United States to commemorate the anniversary of the American Revolution, and visited the Battle of Yorktown battlefield.^[2]
In 1826, Lafayette College was chartered in Easton, Pennsylvania. Lafayette was honored with a monument in New York City in 1917.^[3] Portraits display Washington and Lafayette in the chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives.^[4] Numerous towns, cities, and counties across the United States were named in his honor.
In 1831, the French navy surgeon and naturalist René Primevère Lesson honored Lafayette by giving the Sri Lankan junglefowl the scientific name Gallus lafayetii. Hence the spelling lafayetii is considered a lapsus and the corrected spelling G. lafayettii is in common use.^[5]
In 1834, upon Lafayette's death, American President Andrew Jackson ordered that Lafayette be accorded the same funeral honors as John Adams and George Washington. Therefore, 24-gun salutes were fired from military posts and ships, each shot representing a U.S. state. Flags flew at half mast for thirty-five days, and "military officers wore crepe for six months".^[6]^[7] The Congress hung black in chambers and asked the entire country to dress in black for the next thirty days.^[8]
In 1899, Lafayette appeared with Washington on a U.S. coin, the Lafayette dollar that was minted in 1899 (though showing the year 1900). It was produced to raise money for a statue of him that was erected in Paris.
On July 4, 1917, shortly after the U.S. entered World War I, Colonel Charles E. Stanton visited the grave of Lafayette and uttered the famous phrase "Lafayette, we are here." After the war, a U.S. flag was permanently placed at the grave site. Every year, on Independence Day, the flag is replaced in a joint French-American ceremony.^[9] The flag remained even during the German occupation of Paris during World War II.
In 1943, on visiting Corsica, General George S. Patton commented on how the Free French forces had liberated the birthplace of Napoleon, and promised that the Americans would liberate the birthplace of Lafayette.
In 1958, the Order of Lafayette was established by U.S. Representative Hamilton Fish III, a World War I veteran, to promote Franco-American friendship and to honor Americans who fought in France. The frigate Hermione, in which Lafayette returned to America, has been reconstructed in the port of Rochefort, Charente-Maritime, France.^[10]
In 2002, although he became a naturalized American citizen during his lifetime,^[11]^[12]^[13] Lafayette was granted honorary United States citizenship by the United States Congress.^[14]
In 2020, President's Square was renamed Lafayette Square stemming from the Black Lives Matter movement's call of change for the sake of liberty as Lafayette had fought for.^[15]

Military and maritime

Several warships were named after Lafayette:

The French Navy acquired USS Langley in 1951 and renamed it La Fayette.
The French frigate La Fayette is a modern "stealth frigate" launched in 1992 and in use by the French Navy since 1996. It is the namesake of the La Fayette class of frigates.
The French ocean-liner SS Normandie was to be the troopship USS Lafayette after being acquired by the US Government, but was destroyed by a fire before conversion to the new role was completed. The name was later given to the USS Lafayette, the lead ship of the Lafayette Class of ballistic missile submarines.
The Lafayette Escadrille was an escadrille of the French Air Service during World War I composed largely of American volunteer pilots.

Places

Counties

Cities, towns, and villages

Fayetteville, North Carolina was the first city named after Lafayette, and is the only one he actually visited, arriving in Fayetteville by horse-drawn carriage in 1825 during Lafayette's visit to the United States from July 1824 to September 1825. Has the largest city population.
Fayetteville, Georgia, seat of Fayette County
Lagrange, Georgia, named for Lafayette's estate in France
Fayetteville, New York
Lafayette, Alabama
Fayetteville, Tennessee is named indirectly; the city is named after Fayetteville, North Carolina.
Fayetteville, Arkansas is named indirectly; the city is named after Fayetteville, TN, which in turn is named after Fayetteville, NC. Has the largest metropolitan population.
Lafayette, California
LaFayette, Georgia
Lafayette, Oregon
Lafayette, Indiana, seat of Tippecanoe County and the home of Purdue University, named after Lafayette during his tour of America.
Lafayette, Louisiana
LaFayette, New York
LaGrange, New York

Squares

Lafayette Square in Buffalo, New York,^[16] where he spoke during his nationwide tour in 1825.^[17]
Lafayette Square in Saint Louis, Missouri, created in 1833 as one of the city's first public parks and named in his honor in 1854.
Lafayette Square, Washington, D.C.
Lafayette Square, New Orleans, Louisiana
Lafayette Square in LaGrange, Georgia

Streets

Rue La Fayette in Paris, one of the longest roads in the city, which crosses the 9th and 10th arrondissements of the city from southwest to northeast.
Lafayette Street in New Haven, Connecticut
Lafayette Street in Williston Park, New York
New York City
- Lafayette Avenue in Brooklyn
- Lafayette Avenue in The Bronx
- Lafayette Street in Manhattan
- Lafayette Street in Queens
- Lafayette Street in Staten Island
Lafayette Road in New Hampshire, which extends from the Massachusetts border in Seabrook to Portsmouth
Avenue de Lafayette in Boston, Massachusetts, located in the Downtown Crossing area.
Lafayette Avenue in Baltimore, Maryland
Lafayette Boulevard in Bridgeport, Connecticut
Lafayette Road in Harrington Park, New Jersey
Lafayette Road in Indianapolis, Indiana
Lafayette Street in Cape May, New Jersey
Lafayette Street in Waltham, Massachusetts, located near a critical area during the Revolution.
Ulice Lafayettova in Olomouc, Czech Republic, is near the site of Lafayette's imprisonment.
Lafayette Street in Metamora, Illinois
Lafayette Drive and Lafayette Road in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, both off of Valley Forge Road located near Valley Forge.
Lafayette Boulevard in Fredericksburg, Virginia, located near the boyhood home of George Washington at Ferry Farm.
Lafayette Street in Marianna, Florida.
Lafayette Street in Williamsburg, Virginia.

Schools

Lafayette High School (Alabama), in Lafayette, Alabama
Lafayette High School (Georgia), in Lafayette, Georgia
Lafayette High School (Florida), in Mayo, Florida
Lafayette High School (Lexington, Kentucky), in Lexington, Kentucky
Lafayette High School (Louisiana), in Lafayette, Louisiana
Lafayette High School (St. Joseph, Missouri), in St. Joseph, Missouri
Lafayette High School (Wildwood, Missouri), in Wildwood, Missouri
Lafayette High School (New York City), in Brooklyn, New York
Lafayette High School (Buffalo, New York), in Buffalo, New York
Lafayette High School (Virginia), near Williamsburg, Virginia
LaFayette Jr./Sr. High School (LaFayette, New York), in LaFayette, New York

Other places

Mount Lafayette in the White Mountains of New Hampshire.
Lafayetteville in Milan, New York
Lafayette Park, a park and neighborhood in Fall River, Massachusetts^[18]
Lafayette Park, a park in Watkins Glen, New York^[19]
LaGrange, Georgia, named for the Lafayettes' estate in France
Lafayette Park in San Francisco, California

Lafayette in sculpture

Bust of Lafayette by Houdon, 1786, marble, in the rotunda of the Virginia State Capitol.^[20]
Bust of Lafayette in National Guard uniform by Houdon, 1790, marble, now at Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Statue by Bartholdi in Union Square Park, Manhattan, New York, 1876
Pediment on the Tippecanoe County Courthouse, Lafayette, Indiana, 1882
Lafayette on the Green, University of Vermont, 1883 Archived 2013-05-26 at the Wayback Machine
LaFayette Fountain by Lorado Taft in Lafayette, Indiana, 1887
Statue in Lafayette Square, Washington, D.C., 1891.
Statue of Lafayette and Washington by Bartholdi, Place des États-Unis (United States Plaza), Paris, France, 1895
Equestrian statue by Paul Wayland Bartlett, 1908, Cours-la-Reine, Paris. An early version appears on the Lafayette dollar.
Lafayette Memorial by Daniel Chester French, 1917, Prospect Park, Brooklyn.
Equestrian statue by Paul Wayland Bartlett, Metz, France 1919, destroyed by German occupation forces and replaced by another statue by M . Goutin in 2004
Statue of the Marquis de Lafayette on Lafayette College campus, Easton, Pennsylvania, by Daniel Chester French in 1921
Equestrian statue in front of the Washington Monument in Baltimore, Maryland, 1924
Statue on Washington Street in Hartford, Connecticut, by Paul Wayland Bartlett. The original of this statue stands in the Louvre, a gift to France from the school children of the United States. 1957.^[21]
Built in 1975, a statue of Lafayette stands atop a fountain in the courthouse square in LaGrange, Georgia.
Statue of Lafayette on Union Avenue & Warren Street in Havre de Grace, Maryland, 1976
Statue outside of the Gen. Horatio Gates House and Golden Plough Tavern, York, Pennsylvania, 2007
Statue of Lafayette, Admiral de Grasse, and General Washington on the Riverwalk Landing in Yorktown, VA, added in 2017.
Statue of the Marquis de Lafayette (Los Angeles)

Lafayette in literature

Lydia Sigourney's tribute in poetry, "To General Lafayette", was published in her 1827 collection of poems.

Gallery

Bust by Houdon (1789)
Place des États-Unis, Paris, France (1866)
Statue by Bartholdi, Union Square Park, Manhattan, New York, (1876)
Pediment on the Tippecanoe County Courthouse, Lafayette, Indiana (1882)
LaFayette Fountain; Lafayette, Indiana (1887)
Major General Marquis Gilbert de Lafayette, Lafayette Square, Washington, D.C. (1891)
Statue in Lafayette Park, Fall River, Massachusetts (Ettore and Arnaldo Zucchi, 1916)
Statue by Paul Wayland Bartlett in Hartford, Connecticut (1957)
LaFayette Fountain, LaGrange, Georgia (1975)

References

^ Bernard Christian Steiner (1907). The life and correspondence of James McHenry: Secretary of War under Washington and Adams. The Burrows Brothers Company.
^ Kramer, Lloyd S. (April 1981). "America's Lafayette and Lafayette's America: A European and the American Revolution". The William and Mary Quarterly. 38 (2): 228–241. doi:10.2307/1918776. JSTOR 1918776.
^ "Marquis de Lafayette". New York City Department of Parks & Recreation. 7 March 2002. Retrieved 11 August 2008.
^ Ike Skelton (22 May 2007). "House Record: Honoring The Marquis De Lafayette On The Occasion Of The 250th Anniversary Of His Birth: Section 29". GovTrack.us. Retrieved 11 August 2008. ^{[dead link‍]}
^ Grouw, Hein van, Dekkers, Wim & Rookmaaker, Kees (2017). On Temminck’s tailless Ceylon Junglefowl, and how Darwin denied their existence. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club (London), 137 (4), 261–271. https://doi.org/10.25226/bboc.v137i4.2017.a3
^ Gaines, p. 448
^ Clary, p. 448
^ Clary, p. 449
^ "Lafayette and the American Flag: The Fourth of July Ceremony". 10 July 2009. Retrieved 19 September 2013.
^ Robert Kalbach. "L'Hermione" (in French). L’association Hermione-La Fayette. Retrieved 11 August 2008.
^ Speare, Morris Edmund "Lafayette, Citizen of America", New York Times, 7 September 1919. The article contains a facsimile and transcript of the Maryland act:"An Act to naturalize Major General the Marquis de la Fayette and his Heirs Male Forever... Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland—that the Marquis de la Fayette and his Heirs male forever shall be and they and each of them are hereby deemed adjudged and taken to be natural born Citizens of this State and shall henceforth be instilled to all the Immunities, Rights and Privileges of natural born Citizens thereof, they and every one of them conforming to the Constitution and Laws of this State in the Enjoyment and Exercise of such Immunities, Rights and Privileges."
^ Folliard, Edward T. "JFK Slipped on Historical Data In Churchill Tribute" Sarasota Journal, 25 May 1973.
^ Cornell, Douglas B. "Churchill Acceptance 'Honors Us Far More'" Sumter Daily Item, 10 April 1963.
^ Public Law 107-209
^ Costello, Matthew R. (2020). ""Lafayette Square: The People's Park"". Washington History. 32 (1/2): 10–12. JSTOR 26947504 – via JSTOR.
^ "Lafayette Square". Buffalo Niagara Convention & Visitors Bureau. Retrieved March 25, 2009.^{[permanent dead link‍]}
^ Kowsky, p. 88
^ Allard, Deborah (31 July 2009). "Neighborhood of the Week: Lafayette Park". The Herald News. Retrieved 3 July 2020.^{[permanent dead link‍]}
^ "LaFayette Park". Watkins Glen Parks and Recreation. City of Watkins Glen. Retrieved 3 July 2020.
^ Anne L. Poulet, Jean-Antoine Houdon (Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 2003), p. 260
^ "CONNECTICUT, CT (05)". Marquis de La Fayette – Memory Spaces. 10 April 2016. Retrieved 6 June 2021.

Works cited

Kowsky, Francis R., Mark Goldman, Austin Fox, John D. Randall, Jack Quinan, and Teresa Lasher (1982). Buffalo Architecture: A Guide (Third printing ed.). The MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-02172-2.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
Clary, David (2007). Adopted Son: Washington, Lafayette, and the Friendship that Saved the Revolution. Bantam Books. ISBN 978-0-553-80435-5.
Gaines, James R. (2007). For Liberty and Glory: Washington, La Fayette, and Their Revolutions. W.W. Norton & Co. ISBN 978-0-393-06138-3.

[Steiner-1] Bernard Christian Steiner (1907). The life and correspondence of James McHenry: Secretary of War under Washington and Adams. The Burrows Brothers Company.

[2] Kramer, Lloyd S. (April 1981). "America's Lafayette and Lafayette's America: A European and the American Revolution". The William and Mary Quarterly. 38 (2): 228–241. doi:10.2307/1918776. JSTOR 1918776.

[parks-3] "Marquis de Lafayette". New York City Department of Parks & Recreation. 7 March 2002. Retrieved 11 August 2008.

[govtrack-4] Ike Skelton (22 May 2007). "House Record: Honoring The Marquis De Lafayette On The Occasion Of The 250th Anniversary Of His Birth: Section 29". GovTrack.us. Retrieved 11 August 2008. ^{[dead link‍]}

[5] Grouw, Hein van, Dekkers, Wim & Rookmaaker, Kees (2017). On Temminck’s tailless Ceylon Junglefowl, and how Darwin denied their existence. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club (London), 137 (4), 261–271. https://doi.org/10.25226/bboc.v137i4.2017.a3

[6] Gaines, p. 448

[7] Clary, p. 448

[8] Clary, p. 449

[9] "Lafayette and the American Flag: The Fourth of July Ceremony". 10 July 2009. Retrieved 19 September 2013.

[10] Robert Kalbach. "L'Hermione" (in French). L’association Hermione-La Fayette. Retrieved 11 August 2008.

[speare-11] Speare, Morris Edmund "Lafayette, Citizen of America", New York Times, 7 September 1919. The article contains a facsimile and transcript of the Maryland act:"An Act to naturalize Major General the Marquis de la Fayette and his Heirs Male Forever... Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland—that the Marquis de la Fayette and his Heirs male forever shall be and they and each of them are hereby deemed adjudged and taken to be natural born Citizens of this State and shall henceforth be instilled to all the Immunities, Rights and Privileges of natural born Citizens thereof, they and every one of them conforming to the Constitution and Laws of this State in the Enjoyment and Exercise of such Immunities, Rights and Privileges."

[folliard-12] Folliard, Edward T. "JFK Slipped on Historical Data In Churchill Tribute" Sarasota Journal, 25 May 1973.

[cornell-13] Cornell, Douglas B. "Churchill Acceptance 'Honors Us Far More'" Sumter Daily Item, 10 April 1963.

[14] Public Law 107-209

[15] Costello, Matthew R. (2020). ""Lafayette Square: The People's Park"". Washington History. 32 (1/2): 10–12. JSTOR 26947504 – via JSTOR.

[LSBNCVB-16] "Lafayette Square". Buffalo Niagara Convention & Visitors Bureau. Retrieved March 25, 2009.^{[permanent dead link‍]}

[BA88-17] Kowsky, p. 88

[18] Allard, Deborah (31 July 2009). "Neighborhood of the Week: Lafayette Park". The Herald News. Retrieved 3 July 2020.^{[permanent dead link‍]}

[19] "LaFayette Park". Watkins Glen Parks and Recreation. City of Watkins Glen. Retrieved 3 July 2020.

[20] Anne L. Poulet, Jean-Antoine Houdon (Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 2003), p. 260

[21] "CONNECTICUT, CT (05)". Marquis de La Fayette – Memory Spaces. 10 April 2016. Retrieved 6 June 2021.

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Honors and memorials to the Marquis de Lafayette

Honors

Military and maritime

Places

Counties

Cities, towns, and villages

Squares

Streets

Schools

Other places

Lafayette in sculpture

Lafayette in literature

Gallery

References

Works cited

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