July 4th 2025 Fireworks, Events Around Thomaston

THOMASTON, CT — Independence Day falls on a Friday in 2025, kicking off a star-spangled three-day weekend packed with fireworks, festivals and other Fourth of July fun in and around Thomaston.

To help you fit it all in on your 4th of July calendar, Patch has put together a guide to what’s going on in Thomaston and the surrounding areas.

July 4 Festivities For 2025:

Information via Thomaston Volunteer Fire Department:

The Thomaston Volunteer Fire Department is holding its annual carnival from Wednesday, July 30 through Saturday, August 2. The carnival will open at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. The carnival opens at 5 p.m. Saturday.

The fire department said this year’s fireworks will be their largest ever in honor of the Town of Thomaston’s 150th anniversary.

The Thomaston Savings Bank has made a "generous donation to the fire department’s fireworks display," fire officials said. Anyone wishing to donate to their fireworks display can send a check to the Thomaston Fire Department, 245 South Main Street Thomaston, CT 06787. Please write Fireworks in the memo section on your check.

Fireworks are on Friday, August 1, at 9 p.m. Fireworks are best seen from the carnival grounds on Sanford Avenue.

The firefighters parade on Main Street is Saturday, August 2 and will have a new start time of 5 p.m.

Independence Day commemorates the adoption of the Declaration of Independence by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776. In that document, the 13 original colonies declared their independence from Great Britain.

During the pivotal summer of 1776, the pre-Revolutionary celebrations honoring King George III’s birthday were replaced with mock funerals as a symbolic break from the crown.

It was an exciting time in Philadelphia — the Continental Congress voted to break from 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 was in Philadelphia on July 4, 1777, while the Revolutionary War was ongoing. Fireworks have been part of Fourth of July festivities since the first celebration in Philadelphia.

Today, Americans celebrate with fireworks, parades, concerts, and family gatherings and barbecues. Celebrations, though, predate by centuries the designation of Independence Day as a federal holiday, which didn’t happen until 1941.