Lafayette Farewell Tour
Friendship Hill National Historic Site
“Wilderness Home of Albert Gallatin”
Point Marion, Pennsylvania
Sunday, June 1, 2025

233 New Geneva Rd, Point Marion, PA Friendship Hill National Historic Site,

Outdoor Events from 11:00 to 2:30

11:00 to 12:00 VFW Band playing Lafayette music

12:00 to 12:30 Professor Brady Crytser Robert Morris University in Pittsburgh will give a short lecture about “Gallatin and the National Road”

12:30 to 1:00    Mountaineer Fife & Drum Corps playing colonial and Lafayette music

1:00 to 2:00    Lafayette and Albert Gallatin share stories about their long standing friendship. (1:00 PM) (There is tent coverage, and chairs for this performance).

Afterward        Follow-on concert by VFW Band and Fife & Drum Corps

Make your own rosettes with Fort Necessity Chapter DAR!

Special Lafayette 200 NPS Passport Stamp available

FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

When Lafayette traveled up the Ohio River, he left the steamboat at today’s Wheeling, West Virginia to take a 166-mile detour to visit his friend Albert Gallatin at his wildness home at Friendship Hill before continuing onto Pittsburgh.  This is possible because the National Road was completed in 1823.  Lafayette and Gallatin became close friends when he was the US minister to France (1816-1823).  Prior to this he was Secretary of the Treasury (1801-1823). He developed a plan to finance our first federally funded national road to help unite the country as Lafayette did in 1825. Lafayette followed today’s National Road Heritage Corridor (US Route 40) to meet his old friend at Uniontown before going to Friendship Hill.  The National Park Service is celebrating the meeting of these two friends with a special NPS Passport Book Stamp during 2025.

Notes:

–          Events will be outdoors under a tent with a stage, tables and chairs

–          Food Vendor trucks will be available at the old barn.

–          Bring enough personal water and snacks.  It will be hot!

–          Bring your NPS Passport Stamp Book

–          No entrance fee for Friendship Hill.  All events are free.

–          Nearby is Fort Necessity NPS, 3 Washington Parkway, Farmington, PA  15437

Contact phone numbers at Friendship Hill: 724-329-2501 and 724-329-5471

Learn more at www.nps.gov