William Floyd, sole Long Islander to sign the Declaration of Independence, gets a day named after him

The day honoring Floyd — whose Old Mastic estate is less than two miles from Mastic Beach High School — will be celebrated ...
WIS TV

WE THE PEOPLE: SC fairgoers sign ‘Declaration of Independence’

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - South Carolina State Fair visitors got the chance to sign a replica of the Declaration of Independence, nearly 250 years after the original document was signed in Philadelphia.
Portland Press Herald

America’s Declaration of Independence was signed by a son of Brunswick

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The News-Herald

Mentor Public Library hosts history talk on Declaration of Independence

Mentor Public Library is celebrating the United States of America’s 250th anniversary all throughout 2026 with programs about the nation’s history. The series launches with a lecture about the ...
East Aurora Advertiser

Wales Signs Agreement to Celebrate 250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence

The Town of Wales recently signed an intermunicipal agreement to participate in a three day celebration next year to ...
Opinion
Manistee News AdvocateOpinion

Declaration of Independence’s promises ring out today as loudly as they did for Lincoln, FDR and through 249 years of US history

Amid the political and social upheaval of the 1960s, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. drew directly and self-consciously on the declaration. In his 1963 “ I Have a Dream” speech, King defined an ...