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See White Plains celebrate the birth of the United States
Revolutionary War re-enactor Jonathan Kruk, in the role of Judge John Thomas, reads the Declaration of Independence during a celebration of the nation’s 250th anniversary at The American Legion Post 135 in White Plains July 12, 2026. The commemoration, sponsored by the City of White Plains Revolutionary War 250 Committee and the White Plains Historical Society, included a parade down Mamaroneck Ave. to the American Legion post, where Revolutionary War re-enactors held the reading of the declaration at the same site that it was first read in New York State on July 11, 1776.
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White Plains commemorated the city’s first reading of the Declaration of Independence as it marked the nation’s 250th anniversary.