Do you have any rare 4th of July traditions?

How was The 4th of July celebrated in 1800?

• I have read John Adams words expressing his vision of how he hoped the 4th of July would be celebrated. I was just wondering did that happen right away of did it take several years for our Traditions to surface

• Answer:

  Generally speaking, we would probably consider the celebrations "subdued" in comparison to our modern expectations. The most common form of celebration was with a local parade, speeches by the area's dignitaries, and a public a reading of the Declaration of Independence. Fireworks displays took place but were not common, owing to both the expense and fire danger. Independence Day chronicler http://www.amazon.com/James-R.-Heintze/e/B001HQ2P22 identified these http://gurukul.american.edu/heintze/fourth.htm#Notable forms of celebration in 1800: At http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Vernon, there was a display of "a model of Mount Vernon, 20 feet long by 24 feet high, illuminated by several hundred lamps." In Philadelphia, the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Marine_Band provided music for the Society of the Cincinnati's dance. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Webster, then a student at Dartmouth, gave his first Fourth of July oration in Hanover's meeting house. At the same time, his future Senate colleague, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Clay, gave a speech at the Lexington, Kentucky, courthouse.