07/08/2026
Happening tonight! Visit the historic Downtown Gallatin square for this once-in-a-lifetime historic event!
Tomorrow marks 250 years since the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence🇺🇸, when John Nixon read it aloud to the citizens of Philadelphia on July 8, 1776.
Join us from 5:00 to 9:00 PM on the Historic Downtown Gallatin Square (📸 checkout the throwback photo of the square) as we celebrate 250 years of freedom with food trucks, live music, a live reading of the Declaration of Independence, a patriotic ceremony, family activities, a patriotic drone show, and plenty of Sumner County history!
Be sure to stop by the Sumner County Museum booth, where you can:
🗽 Take a photo with Lady Liberty
🏕️ Visit with an early settler and learn what life was like in Revolutionary War era Sumner County
🦫View Revolutionary War fi****ms and fur trading pelts
📜 Discover the stories of Sumner County’s earliest settlers
🕯️ Learn about our 30th Annual Candlelight Cemetery Tour’s connection to America 250!🇺🇸