Seasonal & Holidays
Fireworks Near Me: Wayland July 4th 2025 Events
Your guide to fireworks, parades and other July 4 celebrations in and around Wayland.
WAYLAND, MA — 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 Wayland.
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 Wayland and the surrounding areas.
July 4 Festivities For 2025
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Stars & Stripes Over Framingham
Where: Farm Pond Park
When: June 27, 5 to 10 p.m.
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The city's annual fireworks display at Farm Pond is back this year.
The event is on June 27 at Farm Pond Park from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. featuring entertainment, food and the fireworks show.
Food trucks and vendors will be on hand at the event, but residents are able to bring their own food as well.
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.
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