Rare Copy of the Declaration of Independence Comes to Richmond October 24, 2009

On Saturday, October 24, from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., the Virginia Historical Society (VHS) will display one of only twenty-six known original printed copies of the Declaration of Independence. The document is one of close to 200 broadsides [large posters] created from Thomas Jefferson’s original draft by twenty-nine-year-old print shop owner John Dunlap. Ordered by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, Dunlap’s printed copies of the Declaration of Independence were distributed the next day to the thirteen states, King George in England, and George Washington to be read to the soldiers of the Continental Army.

Official Website: http://www.vahistorical.org