Always nice to find verification. . .

I found this on the Concord Insider today:

June 22, 1825: The Marquis de Lafayette, hero of the American Revolution, visits Concord during his government-sponsored tour of all 24 states. Driven down Main Street in a four-wheel carriage, he is greeted by a crowd of 30,000 to 40,000. At the State House, 200 to 300 Revolutionary War veterans gather to shake his hand. Many weep. Nine years later, Concord’s Fayette Street will be named in memory of this day. An elm planted on the State House lawn to commemorate the event will flourish until 1956, when the state pays $300 to get rid of it. Gov. Lane Dwinell will salvage a few engraved gavels from the Lafayette elm. Other residents will use slabs from the trunk for coffee tables.

Here's some of my account of the day Lafayette was honored in Concord, NH as per Chapter 13 of A Buss from Lafayette

“The conversation was equally as brisk, with Major Weeks telling us all about the huge celebration honoring Lafayette that had been held in Concord the day before.

I noted that he did not preface it by describing what he had worn to the celebration.

He did say that Concord had been filled to the brim with nearly forty thousand people, more than ten times the town’s normal population. Two cannons on the hill back of the State House kept firing away, and the church bell of Old North Church rang and rang and rang.

“Ladies and little girls showed up with their arms absolutely full of roses to bestow on the Nation’s Guest,” the major went on. “Then, when the procession with the man himself arrived, there was such a frenzy as I have never heard or seen in my entire life!”

“Was the procession just the General and his entourage?” Prissy asked.

“Oh, no, ma’am, ’twas far grander a spectacle than that!”

We all listened spellbound as the major told of Lafayette arriving in a barouche drawn by six white horses, followed by a stagecoach carrying his son, George Washington Lafayette, his secretary, Mr. Levasseur, and Amos Parker.”

—A Buss from Lafayette © 2016 by Dorothea Jensen

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