Fireworks Near Me: July 4, 2024 Events in Westport

WESTPORT, CT — Independence Day is just around the corner, so it’s time to find out where you can celebrate in and around Westport. Area events include fireworks, festivals and other Fourth of July fun.

To help you fit everything into your Fourth of July calendar, Patch put together a guide to what's happening in and around Westport.

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July 4, 2024 Festivities

What: Fireworks for Independence Day celebration in Westport

Where: Compo Beach

When: 8:30 p.m., July 2 (rain date, July 3)

The PAL fireworks show takes place at Compo Beach. This is a ticketed event and tickets can be purchased at the Westport Police Department beginning June 1, 50 Jesup Road and the Parks and Recreation Office beginning June 3, 260 Compo Road South. The fee is $50 per vehicle, cash or check only!!!

*Special thanks to Melissa and Doug Bernstein and the Bernstein Family Foundation for generously sponsoring this event.

Today, Americans celebrate the birth of a new nation with fireworks, parades, concerts, family reunions, and barbecues. However, these celebrations predate Independence Day as a federal holiday by centuries, which didn't occur until 1941.

In the pivotal summer of 1776, the pre-revolutionary celebrations of King George III's birthday were replaced by a mock funeral as a symbolic break with the crown.

It was an exciting time in Philadelphia: the Continental Congress voted to break with the crown, and two days later, on July 4, the Declaration of Independence was adopted by the original 13 colonies: New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York. , New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland. Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia – to adopt the Declaration of Independence.

The first annual commemoration of the nation's independence took place in Philadelphia on July 4, 1777, while the Revolutionary War was still going on. Fireworks have been a part of Fourth of July festivities since the first celebration in Philadelphia.