Editing Lafayette, Oregon (section)

==History==
[[Image:Marquis de Lafayette 1.jpg|110px|thumb|left|alt=Marquis de Lafayette|<small>General Lafayette, 1792</small>]]
[[File:Lafayette Oregon steamboat landing 1938.jpg|thumb|alt=Lafayette steamboat landing, 1938|<small>Lafayette steamboat landing, 1938</small>]]

Lafayette was founded in 1846 by [[Joel Perkins]],<ref>{{cite web |author1=Annie Von Domitz |title=Joel Perkins |url=https://oregontic.com/oregon-historical-markers/joel-perkins/ |website=Oregon Travel Information Council |access-date=2 April 2019 |date=23 February 2018}}</ref> an [[American pioneer]] and entrepreneur, who had previously lived in [[Lafayette, Indiana]]<ref name=OGN>{{cite book |last= McArthur |first= Lewis A. |author-link= Lewis A. McArthur |author2=Lewis L. McArthur |author2-link=Lewis L. McArthur |title= [[Oregon Geographic Names]] |orig-year= 1928 |edition= Seventh |year= 2003 |publisher= [[Oregon Historical Society]] Press |location= [[Portland, Oregon|Portland]], [[Oregon]] |isbn= 0-87595-277-1 |pages= 551}}</ref> and named the new settlement similarly after [[Marquis de Lafayette]], a general involved in the [[American Revolutionary War]].

The post office was established in 1851,<ref name=OGN/> and the city was incorporated by the [[Oregon Legislative Assembly]] on October 17, 1878.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Baker|first=Frank C.|year=1891|title=Special Laws|journal=The Laws of Oregon, and the Resolutions and Memorials of the Sixteenth Regular Session of the Legislative Assembly Thereof|publisher=State Printer|location=Salem, Oregon|page=883|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Yr2wAAAAIAAJ&q=oregon%20legislature%20hillsboro%20incorporation&pg=PA883}}</ref>

Lafayette was the [[county seat]] of Yamhill County from its founding until 1889, when county residents voted to move the county seat to [[McMinnville, Oregon|McMinnville]].<ref name=OGN/>