Lake Erie Islands Historical Society’s Island Pioneers will greet guests at the LEIHS
Museum on Sunday, August 2, 2026, to sign the Official LEIHS’s Declaration of
Independence Ledger commemorating the 250th Anniversary of the signing of the
Declaration of Independence. Signers will receive a commemorative copy of the
Declaration of Independence that includes a signature line and notation it was signed at
the LEIHS Museum on August 2, 2026, as well s a souvenir sticker that proclaims “I
Signed” with LEIHS name and America 250-OH logo. LEIHS’s oldest sitting board
member (25 years), Maggie Beckford, is a six-generation great-granddaughter of Philip
Livingston, a prominent signer of the Declaration of Independence.
