Proceedings of the Centennial Celebration at Groton, Mass., July 4th, 1876, in Commemoration of the Destruction of the Town, March, 1676, and the Declaration of Independence, July 4th, 1776. With an Oration by Samuel Abbott Green.
100 years following the signing of the Declaration and eleven after the end of the Civil War, the town of Groton, Massachusetts celebrated the nation’s centennial with a ceremonial procession featuring music, readings, and dinner. Where the July 4th orations of the past 30 years had focused on the disparity in liberty between free and enslaved peoples, this address instead reflects on the growth in population and industry that had occurred since 1776. Based on this publication, the celebration of America’s centennial in Groton was more local and personal than a reckoning with the idealistic concept of liberty.
Samuel A. (Abbott) Green (1830-1918).
Proceedings of the Centennial Celebration at Groton, Mass., July 4th, 1876, in Commemoration of the Destruction of the Town, March, 1676, and the Declaration of Independence, July 4th, 1776. Groton, 1876.
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