Lafayette returns to Jersey City’s Bergen neighborhood with a ceremony at the Jersey City Public Library – Five Corners Branch, 678 Newark Ave from 11 AM to noon, followed by a reception at the nearby Museum of Jersey City History at the Van Wagenen (Apple Tree) House at 298 Academy St, until 1 PM. The presentation is a collaboration of the American Friends of Lafayette with the Jersey City Museum of History and will involve the unveiling of a Lafayette plaque and a reenactment of the 1824 presentation of an apple tree cane to General Lafayette. Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop will also proclaim September 23 to be Lafayette Day in Jersey City. Learn more about this free event at mjchistory.com.

Lafayette returns to Elizabeth, NJ, with events at Belcher Ogden Mansion, 1046 E Jersey St., from 3 to 4 pm, and at Boxwood Hall State Historic Site, 1073 E Jersey St. from 4 to 6 pm. Both events are free, but advance registration is required for Boxwood Hall through the Westfield Chapter of the DAR due to capacity limitations.