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* Lafayette Park – Residential Apartment Complex, Detroit, Michigan ( 1963 ).

On May 20, 1995, primarily as a response to the Oklahoma City bombing of April 19, 1995, the United States Secret Service closed off Pennsylvania Avenue to vehicular traffic in front of the White House from the eastern edge of Lafayette Park to 17th Street.

* September 5 – U. S. President George H. W. Bush holds up a bag of cocaine purchased across the street at Lafayette Park, in his first televised speech to the nation.

After purchasing a. 44 revolver, Guiteau obsessively stalked President Garfield at Lafayette Square Park and at Garfield's Disciples of Christ Church in Washington.

* Lafayette Park

* Lafayette Park ( disambiguation )

Originally created as Lafayette National Park in 1919, the first National Park East of the Mississippi, The forest fire was one of a series of fires that consumed much of Maine's forest as a result of a dry year.

He is buried in the Rest Haven Memorial Park, in Lafayette, Indiana.

* 1895: Lafayette and Washington Monument, in the Place des États-Unis, Paris, and an exact replica at Morningside Park, New York City, United States.

* Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve ( part, in Lafayette )

* 25px State Highway 7 begins at the junction of US 36 and N St. Vrain Avenue in Estes Park and runs to Boulder, Lafayette and Brighton.

Earl Park was laid out July 31, 1872, by Adams D. Raub and named for his uncle, Adams Earl, one of the promoters of the Big Four railway from Lafayette to Kankakee.

Central Park Plaza, ( Lincolnway and Lafayette St ) – is the centerpiece of the Downtown Valparaiso revitalization and opened the summer of 2011.

* Lafayette Park Police-who enforce state jurisdiction and local ordinance for the city owned parks and surrounding neighborhoods in the City of Lafayette.

There is also Bowman Park and Lafayette Park.

The district includes Lincoln Park High School, Lincoln Park Middle School, Carr Elementary, Foote Elementary, Hoover Elementary, Keppen Elementary, Lafayette Elementary, Paun Elementary, and Raupp Elementary.

Also contained within the boundaries of this community is Washington Rock State Park, which commemorates the spot where George Washington and Marquis de Lafayette watched the movement of the British soldiers during the American Revolutionary War, mainly the months of May and June 1777.

* Lafayette City Park: Located on Days Road and includes picnic facilities, a playground, a swimming pool, a volleyball court, tennis courts and a baseball field.

Sneed Boulevard is used as a bypass that connects Route 52 to the Lafayette Industrial Park, which is located in the northern section of the city.

Equestrian statues of him can be found at Kosciuszko Park in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, across from the Polish Basilica of St. Josaphat, Chicago's Museum Campus on Solidarity Drive and in Detroit on Michigan Ave. Other statues can be found in Boston Public Garden ; Scranton, Pennsylvania ; a bust in the U. S. Capitol as well as a statue Lafayette Park in Washington, D. C .; the United States Military Academy at West Point ; Williams Park in St. Petersburg, Florida ; and Red Bud Springs Memorial Park in Kosciusko, Mississippi ; in Kosciuszko Park in East Chicago, Indiana ; and ( with Kazimierz Pułaski ) in Poland, Ohio, a township and village named in honor of the two heroes of the American Revolution.

Congress had already appropriated money, and plans were well along to tear down the buildings flanking Lafayette Square and replace them with what one critic calls the `` marble monumentality '' of government office buildings.

He has positioned Lafayette to the right of three pedestals: one has a bust of Benjamin Franklin, another of George Washington, and the third seems reserved for Lafayette.

The best-known, most elaborate, and most popular events are in New Orleans, while other South Louisiana cities such as Lake Charles, Lafayette, Mamou, Houma, and Thibodaux all of which were under French control at one time or another, are the sites of famous Carnival celebrations of their own.

In one of the most daunting logistical efforts of the Confederacy, Longstreet, with the divisions of Lafayette McLaws and John Hood, a brigade from George Pickett's division, and Porter Alexander's 26-gun artillery battalion, traveled over 16 railroads on a route through the Carolinas to reach Bragg in northern Georgia.

* Lafayette Reynolds, one of the principal characters in True Blood, an American TV series

Within the city limits are two high schools ( Lafayette High School and the Chambers County Career Technical School ), one middle school ( JP Powell Middle School ), and one elementary school ( Eastside Elementary School ).

Cheney was one of three sons of early McLean County settler Jonathan Cheney active in promoting the Lafayette Bloomington and Mississippi Railroad ; when his brother, Haines Cheney, was in the Illinois Senate he had helped to arrange the charter of the railroad.

While no one is sure when the city adopted the title of ' West Lafayette ', by the 1940s it had emerged as an independent, suburban city.

Lafayette has one university, one community college and two vocational colleges.

" The settlement had grown by 1859 large enough to establish one of the oldest Catholic Churches in Lafayette Parish ; St. Anne Catholic Church, and had named its oldest street, Church Street.

With the emphasis on trade and agriculture, Lexington and Lafayette County also had one of the largest slave populations in the state.

Fords has two elementary schools — Ford Avenue School and Lafayette Estates School — and one middle school, Fords Middle School, all of which are a part of the Woodbridge Township School District.

Easton is the home of one four-year college, Lafayette College, which was established in 1826.

After being wounded, Rockwell joined one of the Legion's aviation corps, known as the Lafayette Escadrille, and would become the first American pilot to shoot down an enemy plane in combat.

Lafayette has one golf course:

There were two hotels in the town ; one was called the Lafayette ( known locally as the ' Lay-flat ') which was close to the railroad, and the aforementioned 100-room Dun Glen, which opened in 1901, became a nationally known resort, and burned down in 1930, marking the beginning of a decline that saw Thurmond a virtual ghost town by the 1950s.

He concocted a plot known as the Conway Cabal which separated Washington from Lafayette, one of Washington's firmest supporters.

Upon his return to France, it is said that Lafayette became involved in an affair with the comtesse Aglaé d ' Hunolstein, one that he broke off on 27 March 1783 by letter, at the insistence of her family.

France declared war on Austria on 20 April 1792, and preparations to invade the Southern Netherlands ( known at that time as the Austrian Netherlands, and in the future as Belgium ), were begun ; Lafayette received command of one of the three armies, at Metz.

It has taken more than forty years to recognize qualities in Monsieur de Lafayette which one insisted on denying him.