The Dakota County Historical will host a program series in recognition of the upcoming 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. The first presentation is The Road to Independence: The Declaration of Independence and will be presented by historian Frank Sachs. It will take place on Thursday, July 14 from 6–8 p.m. at the Lawshe Memorial Museum. Admission to the presentation is $10 per person, or $5 for DCHS members. Registration can be completed online, or you can pay at the door.
The Lawshe Memorial Museum is located at 130 Third Ave. N. in South St. Paul. Light refreshments will be available for attendees during the event. For more information call 651-552-7548 or visit the Dakota County Historical Society website.
July 4, 2026 will mark the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and the founding of the United States. In recognition of this historic event, DCHS will host a 14-part presentation series that is designed to explore a different aspect of our government to show why, and how, it was set up that way and its impact on today.
The first presentation is The Road to Independence: The Declaration of Independence. Attendees will explore the making of our Declaration of Independence and learn how representative thirteen disparate colonies came together to make declarations and fight for independence.
Frank Sachs sits on the Dakota County Historical Society's Board of Trustees and is a retired educator and historian. Sachs taught for 46 years, the final 37 of those years were at The Blake School in Minneapolis. He studied the Constitution and the American legal system at the Supreme Court Institute for Teachers at Georgetown Law School and was selected twice to be a Gilder Lehrman Scholar.