From the Desk of Mayor Eric H. Jones July 2018 WHO’S WHO In City Government OFFICIALS Mayor Eric H. Jones, Jr. “FOR YOUR INFORMATION” Vice Mayor Brian C. Johnson This month we celebrate The Declaration of Independence Day on August 2nd of each year, the day...
More
From the Desk of Mayor Eric H. Jones July 2018 WHO’S WHO In City Government OFFICIALS Mayor Eric H. Jones, Jr. “FOR YOUR INFORMATION” Vice Mayor Brian C. Johnson This month we celebrate The Declaration of Independence Day on August 2nd of each year, the day the Independence. We celebrate American Independence Day Declaration of Independence was signed! CITY on the Fourth of July every year. We think of July 4, 1776, as Commissioner a day that represents the Declaration of Independence and Thomas Dorsett the birth of the United States of America as an independent nation. But July 4, 1776 wasn't the day that the Continental Congress decided to declare independence (they did that on July 2, 1776). It wasn’t the day we started the American Revolution either (that had happened back in April 1775). And it wasn't the day Thomas Jefferson wrote the first draft of the Declaration of Independence (that was in June 1776). Or the date on which the Declaration was delivered to Great Commissioner Br
Less
