LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Second Baptist Church stands as a pillar of faith with almost 152 years of Lafayette history, but just like everyone’s story, there was a beginning.

Lafayette's downtown history includes a Vermilionville pirate who disguised himself as a resident, as well as a parade of lions, tigers and elephants through its streets, according to "The ...

Aviation history was made on Oct. 15, 1928, when the German airship "Graf Zeppelin" moored at Lakehurst, N.J., upon completing a transatlantic flight, the first ever by a lighter-than-air craft.

Lafayette resident Nicholas Bernhard, however, has no issue with the Miller name being used in the city and, in direct response to the apartment complex petition, said that Mary Miller’s legacy ...

In real life, decades after the Revolution’s end, Lafayette was invited back to America by President James Monroe as part of a celebration of the country’s 50th anniversary. What was intended ...

Thomson wasn’t Lafayette’s first blacksmith. That honor belongs to Jack Elson, who opened what he called a carriage shop in the early 1850s near what is now the Lafayette shopping center.

On June 3, 1825, Lafayette, then 67, was guest of honor at a dinner held on a 179-foot bridge that spanned a gully between State and French streets, near Second Street.

He also made an indelible impact on the preservation of Lafayette’s history, serving as an ambassador for the city last year when it celebrated its 125th anniversary.

Lafayette residents will gather this weekend to commemorate Juneteenth — June 19, 1865, the day the last of America's enslaved people learned they were free — as a community. Fred Prejean ...

The Lafayette History Museum was awarded two grants, totaling over $52,000 which will be used toward a comprehensive inventory and preservation of a collection of coal mining maps.