Lafayette Returns: The 200th Anniversary Celebration
Date and Time
Saturday Nov 2, 2024
10:00 AM - 2:00 PM EDT
Lafayette Returns
Saturday, November 2, 2024
Goochland County
10am – 12noon Lafayette at Historic Tuckahoe Plantation
Spend the morning at Tuckahoe with the Marquis de Lafayette. Enjoy a reenactment of the Lafayette's speech when he returned to the United States after the Revolutionary War. The Goochland Culinary Arts students have prepared delicious food for your enjoyment.
Get to know other history buffs from the area and around the State. Feel free to dress in your best from 1824 or dress comfortably.
Tickets: $30 person
This event will benefit Elk Hill.
1pm-2pm Dedication of the Lafayette Marker
After our special time at Tuckahoe, we will proceed to the Goochland Courthouse area to the dedication of the Lafayette Historical Marker.
After the dedication, join us for a refreshment at Courthouse Creek Cidery,
Food and Cider will be available for purchase. Join us and mingle with the Marquis de Lafayette.
Please bring donation items for Elk Hill to this event.
Contact Information
Manny Alvarez
Committee Chair/ VA 250 Commission
Description
About the 250 Committee
Goochland has partnered with the Virginia American Revolution 250 Commission (VA250). The VA250 Commission was established in 2020 by the General Assembly to commemorate the anniversary of the American Revolution.
Goochland County adopted a resolution of support on December 6, 2022, with the understanding that the Goochland Historical Society would form and lead the Goochland committee.
Appointed by the Goochland Historical Society, the Goochland VA 250 Committee includes:
- Manny Alvarez, Chair
- Robin Hillman, Vice Chair
- Michael Trownsell, Secretary
- Robin Lind, Goochland Historical Society
- James Richmond, Goochland Historical Society
- Christina Dunn, Goochland Historical Society
- Suzanne Keesler, Goochland Historical Society
- Tad Thompson, Historic Tuckahoe
- Jessica Kronberg, Goochland County
- Linda Weistroffer, Friends of Goochland Library
- Suzanne Taylor, Goochland County Public Schools
- Gordon Lohr, Preservationist
- Jeffery Mabry, Jackson Blacksmith Shop
- Rhonda Shannon, Second Union Rosenwald School
- Sara Worley, Goochland County Economic Development
- Tom Cocke, Goochland County Parks & Recreation
- Sandie Warwick, Goochland On My Mind
The Goochland Committee meets the third Thursday of every other month at 6pm in the Goochland County Administration Building (room 270). Their first meeting was held on July 27th, 2023. For more information regarding the Goochland VA 250 Committee, please contact GVA250thCommission@goochlandva.us
To support the work of the Commission, donations can be made to G250, C/O Goochland County Historical Society, P.O. BOX 602, Goochland, VA 23063.
Become a Sponsor! Your support will help us tell the story of Virginia’s role in shaping the new nation.
For more information about the Virginia American Revolution 250 Commission (VA250), please visit www.va250.org.
