Colonial Williamsburg Plans Free July 4 America 250 Events With Fireworks and Drone Show
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Updated · Fox News · Jun 16
Colonial Williamsburg Plans Free July 4 America 250 Events With Fireworks and Drone Show
3 articles · Updated · Fox News · Jun 16
Summary
July 4 will bring Colonial Williamsburg’s biggest crowd and what organizers call its largest-ever fireworks show, centered on Courthouse Green as part of America 250 celebrations.
Free admission tickets will be available for that day, opening the historic site and its museums alongside military reenactments, costumed interpreters and a public reading of the Declaration of Independence.
Williamsburg is framing the event around its role in the nation’s founding: the city hosted debates that helped spark independence, and Virginia’s Declaration of Rights was adopted there on June 12, 1776.
The site also highlights the limits of that founding-era liberty, emphasizing the central role of enslaved African Americans in Williamsburg’s colonial economy and in its modern historical interpretation.
Part of Virginia’s historic triangle with Jamestown and Yorktown, Colonial Williamsburg was restored beginning in the 1920s with major backing from John D. Rockefeller Jr. and now serves as an open-air museum.