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Fruit sign. Beaufort, South Carolina. [Signs: 'Beaufort Art School;. General Lafayette Spoke from this Porch 1824; Public Stenographer; Bay Fish Co; Fruits - Vegetables'. In 1824, the French Marquis de Lafayette, last surviving major general of the American Revolutionary War, made a tour of the 24 states in the United States. He made a speech from the balcony of John Mark Verdier House, also known as the Lafayette Building].