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County: Jessamine

First Celebration

Marker Number: 

201

Location: 

Jct. Clear Creek/US 68

July 4, 1794, Col. William Price, veteran of the Revolutionary War, held the first celebration of Independence Day west of the Alleghenies. At his plantation, near here, forty veterans dined to commemorate the "glorious birthday of our freedom."

Erected June 2, 1964.

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