Declaration of Independence Reading at Sycamore Shoals July 4, 1776

LivingHisorySites.com brings you a reenactment of the news of the Declaration of Independence being read on the western frontier, during the Revolutionary War era. How did the fiercely independent frontiersmen deal with the drastic news of the day? Filmed by Living History Sites entirely on location on July 4, 2009, at Sycamore Shoals State Historic Area in Elizabethton, TN.