Cheraw in Chesterfield County, South Carolina — The American South (South Atlantic)
Lafayette’s Tour
Mapping the Farewell Tour
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Photographed by J. J. Prats, March 19, 2025
1. Lafayette’s Tour Marker
Erected 2020 by William G. Pomeroy Foundation. (Marker Number 15.)
Topics. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Notable Events • Patriots & Patriotism. A significant historical date for this entry is March 6, 1825.
Location. 34° 41.907′ N, 79° 53.233′ W. Marker is in Cheraw, South Carolina, in Chesterfield County. It is at the intersection of 3rd Street and Kershaw Street, on the right when traveling south on 3rd Street. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 235 3rd St, Cheraw SC 29520, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Regionally, this marker is in South Carolina’s Pee Dee and in the Olde English District. It is also in the American South and specifically in the Deep South. Globally, it is in the North Atlantic Region, North America, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once the territory of the Mississippian Culture, one of the original Thirteen Colonies, one of
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Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: Coulter Memorial Academy Site (approx. 0.2 miles away); Robert Smalls School (approx. 0.3 miles away); Dizzy Gillespie Birthplace (approx. 0.3 miles away); Francis Asbury's First Visit to S.C. (approx. 0.4 miles away); Captain Mose Rogers (approx. half a mile away); The 71st Regiment of Foot (approx. half a mile away); Old St. David's (approx. half a mile away); Cheraw Confederate Memorial (approx. half a mile away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Cheraw.
Another marker is no longer nearby. Grave of British Soldier (was approx. half a mile away but has been replaced with another marker now near it).
Also see . . . March, 1825: Lafayette’s Visit to South Carolina. In the South Carolina Historical Society blog. Excerpts:
During the American Revolution, a wealthy French teenager was willing to risk his fortune and his life for people he had never met who lived an ocean away, based on their stirring fight for freedom from British colonial rule. ...(Submitted on March 23, 2025, by J. J. Prats of Powell, Ohio.)
Asthe nation he had helped establish approached its fiftieth birthday, Lafayette, the last surviving Revolutionary general, wrote to President James Monroe expressing his longing to “to revisit the happy shores of an adopted country, which has fulfilled so well our early and most sanguine expectations.” ...Photographed by J. J. Prats, March 19, 20252. Lafayette’s Tour MarkerSmall blue marker with gold trim can be seen through the gate.
Lafayette and his party arrived in New York on August 16, 1824. Greeted and feted as a rock star in all (then) 24 states, Lafayette attracted rapt public attention and overwhelming hospitality from aging Revolution veterans, military and civic leaders, the press, and Americans of every stripe.
Photographed by J. J. Prats, March 19, 2025
3. Lafayette House, Cheraw, South Carolina
The Lafayette House in Cheraw is in the Adam style, an adaptation of the early Classical Revival. Built in 1823 by Dr. William Ellerbe, it was the site of a public reception for the Revolutionary War hero General Marquis de Lafayette on his return visit to the United States in 1825. —KnowItAll.org
Credits. This page was last revised on January 11, 2026. It was originally submitted on March 23, 2025, by J. J. Prats of Powell, Ohio. This page has been viewed 277 times since then and 50 times this year. Last updated on January 9, 2026, by Evan Dwyer of Richmond, Virginia. Photos: 1, 2, 3. submitted on March 23, 2025, by J. J. Prats of Powell, Ohio. • Devry Becker Jones was the editor who published this page.
