DAR Lafayette Marker Dedication

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When:
05/01/2023 @ 02:00 – 02:30
2023-05-01T02:00:00-04:00
2023-05-01T02:30:00-04:00
Where:
Lafayette Spring
Cannelton
IN
USA
Contact:
Randy Helderman
812-630-2315
Email
Color Guard

The Indiana Color Guard has been invited by Cherie Baxter, Indiana DAR State Regent, to participate in the Lafayette Marker Dedication on Monday, May 1 at 2:00 pm Eastern time at Lafayette Spring in Cannelton, IN, which is right along the Ohio River.

Contact Randy Helderman if you have any questions. Phone: 812-630-2315. Email: rhelderman69@gmail.com.

The markers are being placed where General de Lafayette visited along his 5,000 mile Farewell Tour in 1824 & 1825. He didn’t visit anywhere else in Indiana and if his steamboat wouldn’t have gone down he wouldn’t have visited.

This is the text of the markers which tells what happened.

LAFAYETTE’S TOUR

ON MAY 9, 1825, GENERAL LAFAYETTE SURVIVED SINKING OF STEAMBOAT “MECHANIC” NEARBY & CONTINUED TO LOUISVILLE ABOARD PASSING STEAMBOAT “PARAGON”.

IN DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

WILLIAM C. POMEROY FOUNDATION   2023