The El Paso County Historical Society will be closed on Fourth of July.
We will resume regular business hours on Thursday, July 6, 2023 from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m.
Read the Declaration of Independence
United States, John Dunlap, Peter Force, David Ridgely, and Printed Ephemera Collection. In Congress, July 4, a declaration by the representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress assembled. [Philadelphia: Printed by John Dunlap, 1776] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2003576546/.
Check out a June 1776 rough draft of the Declaration of Independence:
Thomas Jefferson, June , Rough Draft of the Declaration of Independence. -06, 1776. Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://www.loc.gov/item/mtjbib000156/.
