06 Jul 1876
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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1876
Page
1
Report describes commemorative events in Athens celebrating the Fourth with morning scenes and incidents. Decorations and a procession mark the observance. The piece notes a new and startling departure at the Black Hills by the "Special Artist."
A campus program features music and prayer followed by the Reading of the Declaration of Independence. General Grosvenor delivers remarks. A. B. Walker, Esq. presents a historical sketch of the county. The event continues in the City Hall with a grand schedule.
The article describes Athens on the Centennial Fourth with extensive decorations along Court Street and in campus grounds. Citizens, including families and children, join parades, calathumpians, and a West Enders display to celebrate 1776 and 1876. The procession, dignitaries, and prayers frame a day of patriotic pageantry and communal festivity.
In a 1876 centennial address Col Constable lauds the nation as born of a people governed by self rule, notes a century of liberty, education, and religious freedom, and celebrates Athens county's origins, growth, and railroad expansion. The speech shifts to a stormy interruption as events move to City Hall for further remarks by Gen Grosvenor and Maj Townsend.
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