4th 2024 Fireworks, Events Near Upper Moreland

UPPER MORELAND, PA — Independence Day is fast approaching so it's time to find out where you can celebrate near Upper Moreland. Area events include fireworks, festivals and other Fourth of July fun.

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 Montgomery County and the surrounding areas.

July 4 Festivities For 2024

Pottstown

The annual GoFourth StreetFest celebration will take place on July 4, capped with fireworks at 9:30 p.m. The day-long festivities will take place at Pottstown Memorial Park.

Lower Providence

Fireworks will shoot off on July 4at dusk at Eagleville Park, which is located on 100 Parklane Drive in Eagleville.

The rain date is for July 5.

Skippack

Skippack's 4th of July fireworks will go off at Palmer Park at dusk. It's located on 4081 Heckler Road.

Limerick

Limerick's fireworks will shoot off at Waltz Golf Farm on the 4th of July at dusk.

The farm is located at 303 W. Ridge Pike in Limerick.

Conshohocken

Conshohocken's fireworks will shoot off on July 3 at 9:30 p.m.

The event will take place at Sutcliffe Park on West 9th Avenue and Freedley Street.

Upper Merion

In Upper Merion, fireworks will shoot off at 9:15 p.m. on July 4 at Heuser Park, located on 694 West Beidler Road.

Norristown

Norristown will host a parade starting at 1 p.m.

The parade will start at St. Francis Church and progress east down West Marshall Street to Stanbridge Street and then Sterigere Street and Harding Boulevard.

Concerts will begin at the bandshell at 4 p.m., with a party, beer garden, food trucks, and more ongoing till fireworks at 9:30 p.m.

Today, Americans celebrate the birth of a new nation 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.

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.