page_title: Visit of the Marquis de Lafayette to the United States
section_title: 1825
hierarchical_section_title: Visit of the Marquis de Lafayette to the United States / Timeline / 1825
caption_attribution_description: English: Originally constructed as two separate buildings (e.g. the "North College" &amp; "South College") in 1825. On 29 June 1825, General Lafayette laid the original cornerstone to what is today known as of the University of Vermont "Old Mill" building, on the "South College" portion of the building, overshadowing the laying of the cornerstone to "North College" by Gov. Van Ness on 26 April of that year.[1] The "Middle College" was built between the two buildings (separated by 8' fire breaks) in 1829. In 1846, the three buildings were joined together to form the singular "Old Mill" building.[2]
context_page_description: The Marquis de Lafayette was the last surviving French general of the American Revolutionary War in 1824, and he made a tour of the 24 states in the United States from July 1824 to September 1825. He was received by the populace with a hero's welcome at many stops, and many honors and monuments were presented to commemorate and memorialize the visit.
context_section_description: January 1 – Attends a banquet hosted by Congress
  January 19 – Visits Baltimore and leaves January 20 on a steamboat bound for Norfolk, on his way to visit the legislature of Virginia at Richmond
  January 31 – Visits Perseverance Lodge #21 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
  February 23, 1825 – Sets off on the southern leg of his tour  Because the route from Richmond to Raleigh was by carriage over poor roads, the traveling party was obliged to take the sandy "Lower Road" by Suffolk and Halifax.
  February 25—Interviewed by Poulson's Advertiser, a Philadelphia newspaper, recalls his wound at Brandywine
  February 26 — Overnight stop at the Indian Queen Inn in Murfreesboro, North Carolina
  February 27 – Traveled to Northampton Court House (present-day Jackson, North Carolina) where he met the official North Carolina greeting party and stayed at Eagle Tavern in Halifax, North Carolina.
  February 28 – Traveled through Enfield, North Carolina, with a brief stop at the home of Joseph Branch and across the Tar River at the falls and spent the night at Col. Allen Rogers' Tavern at Rogers Crossroads in eastern Wake County, North Carolina
  March 1 — Viewed Canova's statue, George Washington, at the North Carolina State House. Traveled from Raleigh to his namesake town Fayetteville, North Carolina
  March 2–3 – Stays in Raleigh, where he is reunited with Colonel William Polk who fought beside him at the Battle of Brandywine where both were wounded
  March 15 – Arrived in Charleston, South Carolina, and enjoys three days of balls, fireworks, and reunions; is reunited with Francis Kinloch Huger, who is the son of his comrade Benjamin Huger and who tried to free Lafayette from an Austrian prison around 1795
  March 18 – Arrived in Beaufort, South Carolina, to a 13-gun salute and speaks to citizens from the John Mark Verdier House
   
  March 19 – Arrived in Savannah, Georgia
  March 21 – Lays the cornerstone for a memorial to General Nathanael Greene
  March 23 – Traveled up the Savannah River by steamboat to Augusta, Georgia
  March 25 – Traveled along the Milledgeville Stage Road to Warrenton, Georgia
  March 26 – Continued on to Sparta, Georgia
  March 27 – Arrived in Milledgeville, Georgia where he meets with the Governor George Troup in an elaborate reception and feast at the Capitol grounds
  March 29 – Travels to Macon, Georgia, and visits the Old Creek Indian agency in Crawford County, Georgia
  March 30 – Spends the night in a bark-covered log cabin in Chattahoochee County, Georgia
  March 31 – Crosses the Chattahoochee River into Alabama and stays in Fort Mitchell, they begin their route west to Montgomery via military escort through Creek territory
  April 3 – Arrived in Montgomery
  April 4–6 – Party boards the Balize and the Henderson and makes its way over the Alabama River through Selma, Alabama, through the capital city of Cahaba, and then meet with members of the French Vine and Olive Colony near Demopolis, then makes an overnight visit to Claiborne, where he was entertained at a ball in the Masonic Lodge, still standing today.
  April 7 – Arrived in Mobile, Alabama
  April 8 – Governor Israel Pickens accompanies Lafayette by steamboat down Mobile Bay to Mobile Point, where he joins an official welcoming party from Louisiana, then boards the steamer Natchez which takes him to New Orleans
  April 11 – Arrived in Chalmette, Louisiana, site of the 1815 Battle of New Orleans, lodges in The Cabildo, site of the Louisiana Purchase transfer ceremonies in 1803
  April 15 – Departs New Orleans on the steamer Natchez up the Mississippi River towards Baton Rouge, Louisiana
  April 16 – Baton Rouge for a reception and banquet, leaving just before nightfall
  April 18 – Stopped at Natchez, Mississippi
  April 28 – Natchez ties up for the evening at Carondelet, Missouri
  April 29 – Visits St. Louis, Missouri
  April 30 – Governor Edward Coles hosts Lafayette in Kaskaskia, Illinois, once the French capital of Upper Louisiana; dignitaries included Pierre Menard and William Stephen Hamilton, son of Alexander Hamilton
  May 4 – Arrived in Nashville, Tennessee
  May 8–9 – Their steamboat Mechanic sinks on
caption: Original cornerstone of "South College" in Burlington
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