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Shafer House of Guthrie Powers and Civil War Visitors
Moscow notes the Shafer House on Captain Anthony Meldahl Locks and Dam property. Built in the 1840s by Kentucky slaves, it hosted Marquis de Lafayette in 1825 and Louis Philippe's exile era. Generals Grant and Sherman stayed two nights in September 1865, amid Reconstruction talks and local lore of pro slavery owners lighting upstairs to confuse fugitive slaves.
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Marquis de Lafayette
United States
Louis Philippe
France
Neville
Fee Villa
Washington Township
Shafer
Anthony Meldahl
Shafers
Ulysses S. Grant
William T. Sherman
Grant
Bethel
Kentucky
Clermont County
Meldah Dam
U.S. Grant