A military parade follows.ġ850: Taylor attends festivities at the grounds of the Washington Monument and falls ill with stomach cramps after eating cherries and drinking iced milk and water. Lancaster had hosted the Continental Congress for a quick, on-the-run session during the revolution.ġ798: Now president, Adams reviews a military parade in Philadelphia as the young nation flexes its muscle.ġ801: Thomas Jefferson presides over the first Fourth of July public reception at the White House.ġ822: James Monroe hangs out at his farm in Virginia.ġ826: Adams, the second president, and Jefferson, the third, both die on this July Fourth.ġ831: James Monroe, who was the fifth president, dies on this July Fourth.ġ848: James Polk witnesses the laying of the cornerstone of the Washington Monument with Abraham Lincoln, then an Illinois congressman, attending. Philadelphia was the interim capital as the city of Washington was being readied. Considering the lateness of the design and the suddenness of the execution, I was amazed at the universal joy and alacrity that was discovered, and at the brilliancy and splendour of every part of this joyful exhibition.”ġ791: Two years after becoming the first president, George Washington celebrates in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, “with an address, fine cuisine, and walking about town,” says the National Park Service. I walked most of the evening, and I think it was the most splendid illumination I ever saw a few surly houses were dark but the lights were very universal. “I was walking about the streets for a little fresh air and exercise,” he writes, “and was surprised to find the whole city lighting up their candles at the windows. After hours of parading troops, fireworks, bonfires and music, he tells her he strolled alone in the dark. A look at what some presidents have done on the Fourth of July:ġ777: On the first anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, with the Revolutionary War underway, a future president, John Adams, describes a day and night of spontaneous celebration in Philadelphia in a letter to his wife, Abigail.
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