Lafayette honored 200 years after his visit to Chadds Ford, West Chester

Lafayette honored 200 years after his visit to Chadds Ford, West Chester

THORNBURY—On the exact day, Saturday July 26, 200 years later after a grand 1824-25 tour, Gen. Marquis de Lafayette triumphantly returned to Chester County and visited where he was wounded during the Revolutionary War at the Battle of Brandywine and later in the day visited, West Chester. Revolutionary War landowner of Thornbury Farm and reenactor Randell Spackman led a tour of where 19-year old French General Lafayette was likely shot in the le…