July 4th 2024 Fireworks, Events Around Miller Place-Rocky Point

MILLER PLACE-ROCKY POINT, NY — Independence Day is fast approaching, so it's time to find out where you can celebrate in and around Miller Place and Rocky Point. Area events include fireworks, festivals and other Fourth of July fun.

To help you fit it all in on your 4th of July calendar, Patch has put together a guide to what’s going on around Miller Place, Rocky Point and the surrounding areas.

July 4 Festivities For 2024

Port Jefferson

What: Port Jefferson Fireworks, Parade

Where: West and East Beach. Fireworks will be going off at West Beach. The fireworks are not viewable from Port Jeff Harbor. This event is for Port Jefferson residents.

When: Fireworks: Wednesday, July 3, 9 p.m.; rain date July 7.

The parade, sponsored by the Port Jefferson Fire Department, takes place at 10 a.m. on Independence day, on Main Street.

Patchogue

What: Lions Club 4th of July Parade, Patchogue

Where: Main Street

When: July 4, 10:30 a.m.

Come down to Main Street for the annual Lions Club 4th of July Parade. Kicking off at 10:30 a.m. and heading east from the intersection of Main Street and West Ave.

Farmingville

What: Bald Hill OF July Celebration and Fireworks, plus free concert

Where: Long Island Community Hospital Amphitheater at Bald Hill

When: July 4 at 5:30 p.m.

Bellport

What: 66th Annual Artists On the Lane

Where: Bellport Lane, Bellport

When: July 4, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Today, Americans celebrate the birth of a new nation with fireworks, parades, concerts, and family gatherings and barbecues. Celebrations, though, predate by centuries the designation of Independence Day as a federal holiday, which didn’t happen until 1941.

During the pivotal summer of 1776, the pre-Revolutionary celebrations honoring King George III’s birthday were replaced with mock funerals as a symbolic break from the crown.

It was an exciting time in Philadelphia — the Continental Congress voted to break from the crown and, two days later on July 4, the Declaration of Independence was adopted by the original 13 colonies —New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland. Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia — to adopt the Declaration of Independence.

The first annual commemoration of the nation’s independence was in Philadelphia on July 4, 1777, while the Revolutionary War was ongoing. Fireworks have been part of Fourth of July festivities since the first celebration in Philadelphia.