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Lafayette Tour Marker, Cromwell, Connecticut (CT-116)

1 South Street
Cromwell, CT 06416
United States

President James Monroe invited the Marquis de Lafayette to visit the United States, his adopted country. Lafayette’s tour of all 24 states in 1824 and 1825 drew large crowds and sparked a renewal of patriotism. During the American Revolution, Lafayette’s intense advocacy of the American cause convinced King Louis XVI of France to send troops and ships, which proved crucial to the American victory at Yorktown. 

Lafayette’s stop in Cromwell on September 4, 1824, was a brief, ceremonial pass-through—probably lasting only a few minutes—that took place between his major receptions in Hartford and Middletown. Cromwell residents lined the road to cheer him as his carriage went by, but no formal address, meal, or extended stop is recorded.

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