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Heritage Day in Easton, Pennsylvania, is a free, full-day family festival that showcases local history, offers activities for kids, and concludes with an amazing fireworks display over the Forks of the Delaware. Support the festival by joining us at the VIP Experience at the Grand Eastonian Hotel. 

Heritage Day celebrates Easton’s historic significance in the founding of the United States. At noon on July 8, 1776, Easton was one of three places where the Declaration of Independence had its first public reading. It was read on the steps of the old courthouse in Easton’s historic Centre Square by the Chair of the Committee of Safety, Robert Levers. A reenactment of that event, and a festival organized around it, first occurred during the Bicentennial Celebration in 1976.  From that year on Heritage Day has been celebrated as Easton’s own Independence Day celebration.

Heritage Day 2019 will be held on Sunday, July 14, 2019.