• Commemorative Reading of the Declaration of Independence

    Historic Carroll County Courthouse 200 Willis Street, Westminster, United States

    Carroll County will join more than 600 communities across the nation in commemorating the 250th Anniversary of the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence. While America declared its independence on July 4, 1776, it was on July 8, 1776, in Philadelphia that Colonel John Nixon first read the Declaration of Independence to the

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