Fireworks Near Me: Orange July 4th 2024 Events

ORANGE, CT — Independence Day is fast approaching so it's time to find out where you can celebrate in and around Orange. Area events include fireworks, festivals and other Fourth of July fun.

July 4 Festivities For 2024

What: Fireworks and concert
Where: Orange Fairgrounds, 525 Orange Center Road
When: July 5. Rain date of July 7.

Orange's July 4th concert and fireworks display is set for Friday, July 5 with a rain date of Sunday, July 7.

The Fairgrounds will open at 3 p.m. There will be food trucks with the concert starting at 6:30 p.m. The fireworks display will follow.

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.