Nebraska
This Day in History – July 4: Nebraska Governor designates Seward ‘Nebraska’s Official 4th of July City’
July 4, 1973 – Seward was designated “Nebraska’s Official Fourth of July City” by Governor J. James Exon in 1973.
Three years later, the city was noted for its patriotic observances by American Revolution Bicentennial officials.
Seward has held a Fourth of July celebration nearly every year since 1868, the same year the city was platted.
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