by admin | Mar 4, 2024 | History
This is part of a series on Lafayette’s visit to Massachusetts August 23, 1824 to September 3 1824. After spending the night in Bolton, Lafayette’s party arrived early in Lancaster in front of a new church building designed by Charles Bullfinch. First Church of...
by admin | Mar 4, 2024 | History
This is part of a series on Lafayette’s visit to Massachusetts August 23, 1824 to September 3 1824. Sampson Vryling Stoddard Wilder (1780-1865) had made a fortune as a merchant in France and retired to gentleman farming in Bolton. Wilder knew Lafayette from his days...
by admin | Mar 4, 2024 | History
This is part of a series on Lafayette’s visit to Massachusetts August 23, 1824 to September 3 1824. The Company of Washington Guards under command of Pliny Wetherbee met Lafayette at the Stow-Acton line and escorted him and SVS Wilder of Bolton to the Gardner Tavern...
by admin | Mar 3, 2024 | History
This is part of a series on Lafayette’s visit to Massachusetts August 23, 1824 to September 3 1824. A cavalcade of about forty met Lafayette at the town line. Mr. John Keyes addressed him and invited him to visit the town. Artillery posted on the brow of the hill...
by admin | Mar 3, 2024 | History
This is part of a series on Lafayette’s visit to Massachusetts August 23, 1824 to September 3 1824. At the Lexington line a troop of horse and a cavalcade of citizens escorted him into town. An arch with evergreen and flowers had the Motto “Welcome! Friend of...
by admin | Mar 3, 2024 | History
This is part of a series on Lafayette’s visit to Massachusetts August 23, 1824 to September 3 1824. The town of West Cambridge mentioned in the contemporary accounts was renamed Arlington on April 30, 1867. Before 1807 it had been Menotmy, Most accounts indicate that...
