The year 2026 will mark the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence of thirteen of the sixteen British Colonies. This website will be the gateway for your journey into the history of Bedford County, which was just five years old when the independence of the United States of America was declared.

Click here to access the Declaration of Independence (and the history of its creation) which brought the nation into being in the summer of 1776.

Count-down to the 250th Anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence
(at approximately 1:00pm on the 4th of July 1776)
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