Lafayette Sighting at Arlington House
Built by George Washington Parke Custis from 1802 to 1818 as a tribute to his step-grandfather, he collected as many artifacts as possible from Mount Vernon.
Historical Sewing and Time Travels
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Meeting Washington and Lafayette: Colonial Williamsburg
1781, the year General Washington sent Lafayette with his dragoons to capture the traitor Benedict Arnold, who had burned down the capitol in Richmond.
Meeting General Lafayette at Colonial Williamsburg
The best part of our Colonial Williamsburg experience was my son’s interaction with Lafayette, which put a big smile on the general’s face.
Williamsburg’s Lord Paget Motor Inn
We arrived at the quaint Lord Paget Motor Inn, with Georgian features like Colonial Williamsburg, less than a mile from the historic area.
Don’t you want to be Lafayette?
It was time to plan costumes for our next history presentation. When I saw the cover of the Jean Fritz book about…
