Jul. 3—Fireworks have been a part of Independence Day celebrations since the beginning. The Smithsonian has a letter from John Adams to his wife, written on July 2, 1776, two days before the signing ...

Fireworks prohibited: Aerial fireworks such as bottle rockets, skyrockets, missile-type rockets, helicopters, torpedoes, Roman candles, flying pigs, and jumping jacks, which move about the ground ...