Event # 2: Friday, May 9, 2025, at 10:00 am CT.

SHIPWRECK REENACTMENT

The American Friends of Lafayette and the Masonic Lodge #623 are having a 200^th year reenactment event at Lafayette Spring where the Steamboat “Mechanic” sank carrying General Lafayette on that fateful night, 200 years ago. 

A ceremony will be held at 10:00am CT at Lafayette Spring with Lafayette himself present and ready to recall this fateful day.  We will be sinking a model of the steamship Mechanic at the exact spot it happened 200 years before.

We will gather at Eagles Bluff Overlook Park in Cannelton, Indiana. This site has plenty of free parking. There, we will board buses and ride over to the actual site of the shipwreck about five minutes down the road.  This free bus shuttle is necessary as there is very limited parking at the site.

Our free ceremony will include the reenactment of the sinking and recollections from Lafayette himself.  Other speakers will include S.A.R. member Jerry Hubbs, who has authored articles regarding the shipwreck, and Karen Schwartz, who serves as President of the Historical Society of Harrison County. 

After the ceremony and the reenactment, (11:30am) the buses will take you to the Perry County Historical Society Museum in Cannelton, with a presentation by Stephen Saalman of the Historical Society, and an unveiling of the renovated Lafayette monument at the Museum.  This event is also free.

Lunch is on your own after the event, and buses will shuttle you back to your cars.

Although everything on May 9th is free and open to the public, we need to understand how many folks to expect.  If you would like to attend this free event, please register by clicking: HERE