Dover Days

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Come kickoff the 300th Birthday celebration at the 84th Annual Dover Days Festival May 5-6, 2017!

Kent County’s Annual Dover Days Festival, one of Delaware’s largest and longest-running free events, is entirely dedicated to promoting our state’s heritage and culture.

This event is easily the biggest parade in Kent County, with close to 4,500 participants and approximately 9,000 spectators, as well as Delaware’s governor serving as Grand Marshal.

Each year’s activities showcase our state’s history and heritage, as well as highlights from more contemporary times (such as the parade itself, traditional Maypole Dancing with over 250 schoolchildren, vintage automobile rides, colonial artisans’ village and historic re-enactment groups for the Revolutionary War, WW II and the Civil War).

This is a true celebration of the first state — right in the heart of the first capital! Dover Days was placed among the 2013 Top 100 USA Events by the American Bus Association.

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