Independence Day



Independence Day

July 4, 2011

Militia Encampment – Tour Stop 6, all day.

Members of the Guilford Militia

demonstrate camp life and militia activity.

Colonial Life-Ways –Colonial Heritage Center, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.

Demonstrations of blacksmithing, open hearth cooking

Sign the Declaration of Independence – Visitor Center

( 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

( 1:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Learn to write with a quill pen and sign the Declaration and get

your free copy.

Fourth of July Battlefield Tour - Visitor Center

( 11:00 a.m.

← 2:00 p.m.

Ranger- led tour of the grounds where the Battle of Guilford Courthouse was fought

Commemoration Ceremony – Signers Monument, Stop 8.

( 12:45 p.m. Prelude Music Guilford Courthouse Fifes & Drums

( 1:00 p.m. Official Commemoration Ceremony

Honoring the 235th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of

Independence and the North Carolina Signers.

Artillery Demonstration – Tour Stop 8

( 1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.

The Guilford Courthouse NMP Artillery Crew will demonstrate firing a

6-pounder cannon.

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INDEPENDENCE DAY

“The Second Day of July 1776, will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America. – I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the Day of Deliverance by solemn Acts of Devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations (fireworks) from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more.

….I am well aware of the Toil and Blood and treasure, that it will cost Us to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States. – Yet through all the Gloom I can see the Rays of ravishing Light and Glory. I can see that the End is more than worth all the Means. And that Posterity will triumph in that Days transaction…. .”

John Adams to Abigail Adams, Philadelphia, July 3d, 1776

( July 2, 1776, the date John Adams thought would be celebrated, is the date the resolution for independence was approved by the 2nd Continental Congress. July 4, 1776 is the date the document, The Declaration of Independence, was approved.

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