On Sunday, November 16, 2025, HHRA Chair Larry Armstrong and The Lafayette Trail, Inc. President Julien Icher, unveiled the Lafayette Trail marker near the historic Willie Jones “Grove” Plantation. The marker reads: “LAFAYETTE’S TOUR ON FEB 28, 1825, GENERAL LAFAYETTE VISITED MARY JONES, WIDOW OF REV. WAR PATRIOT WILLIE JONES, AT HER HOME PRIOR TO LEAVING FOR RALEIGH.”
This is the 174th marker placed by the Lafayette Trail, Inc. The trail sign program is administered by the corporation and underwritten by the William G. Pomeroy Foundation