Oriskany Welcomes Lafayette
- Oriskany Museum
- May 30
- 1 min read
Join the Village of Oriskany as we welcome General Lafayette where he originally came to greet his fellow veteran of Yorktown, Col. Gerrit G. Lansing. Both men enlisted in the Revolution as teenagers and found themselves coming of age with the birth of a new nation. After the war, Col. Lansing raised his family near Albany before settling at Oriskany around 1802, where he helped start the village's first woolen mill.
On June 10, 1825, Lansing, his wife Marie Antill Lansing, and their oldest son Richard greeted Gen. Lafayette as he arrived on the newly constructed Erie Canal. They received him for breakfast at the Lansing home on what is today Dexter Avenue.
To commemorate the anniversary, the community will receive Lafayette in Trinkaus Park at 9:30 am outside the Oriskany Museum at 420 Utica Street, about 600 yards from where Lafayette and Lansing originally reunited. This event is free and open to the public. Please bring lawn chairs or picnic blankets.
The public ceremony will be followed by a breakfast fundraiser at 10:30 am at the Oriskany American Legion (7908 NY-69, Oriskany, NY) adjacent to the Oriskany Battlefield. Tickets are $25 for general admission or $20 for Battle of Oriskany Historical Society members. The breakfast will feature a historically-inspired menu of eggs, ham, and pancakes alongside a selection of pastries based on recipes available in the 1820s. Seating is limited, so please reserve your tickets today.
Regency clothing is welcome and encouraged; business casual for the modern dresser.
For tickets, please visit oriskanymuseum.com/lafayette
For details for all the CNY Lafayette events, please download the brochure below or visit lafayette200cny.org
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