Fond du Lac America250 Parade

09/10/2026

09/06/2026

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2026 Labor Day Parade – September 7, 2026
On Friday, September 4th, you will see No Parking signs going up along the parade route for Monday’s parade.
We want to provide early notice that parking will be restricted on Main Street between Johnson Street and W. 2nd Street on September 7, 2026, starting at 8AM. Additionally, traffic restrictions will be in place on W. Rees Street, S. Macy Street, S. Marr Street, and W. 2nd Street.
The parade route will start to shut down to all traffic starting at 10AM. Please plan your travels and downtown parking accordingly.
Details:
Parade starts at 11AM
Starts: E. Rees St./ N. Main St.
Route: South on Main St. to W. 2nd St.
Ends: W. 2nd St./ S. Macy St.
FDLPD continues to work collaboratively with parade organizers, Fond du Lac Fire Rescue, Department of Public Works, WI State Patrol, and the Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s Office to provide a safe and enjoyable gathering for our community. FDLPD maintains our safety plans to include high visibility of public safety vehicles and personnel along parade routes.
NO PARKING will be in effect on Monday, September 7th from 8AM – 12PM within the Labor Day parade route. Vehicles parked within the parade route will be ticketed and towed at owners' expense.

08/07/2026

Car show today from 5-8pm

07/05/2026

Congress adopts Olive Branch Petition

On July 5, 1775, the Continental Congress adopts the Olive Branch Petition, written by John Dickinson, which appeals directly to King George III and expresses hope for reconciliation between the colonies and Great Britain. Dickinson, who hoped desperately to avoid a final break with Britain, phrased colonial opposition to British policy as follows: “Your Majesty’s Ministers, persevering in their measures, and proceeding to open hostilities for enforcing them, have compelled us to arm in our own defence, and have engaged us in a controversy so peculiarly abhorrent to the affections of your still faithful Colonists, that when we consider whom we must oppose in this contest, and if it continues, what may be the consequences, our own particular misfortunes are accounted by us only as parts of our distress.”

King George refused to so much as receive the Olive Branch Petition. Patriots had hoped that Parliament had curtailed colonial rights without the kings full knowledge, and that the petition would cause him to come to his subjects’ defense. When George III refused to read the petition, Patriots realized that Parliament was acting with royal knowledge and support. Americans’ patriotic rage was intensified by the January 1776 publication by English-born radical Thomas Paine of Common Sense, an influential pamphlet that attacked the monarchy, which Paine claimed had allowed crowned ruffians to impoverish the nation and set it together by the ears.

07/04/2026

George Washington formally took command of the troops in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on July 3, 1775. This appointment was a crucial step in the organization of the American forces during the Revolutionary War

06/30/2026

Final tally: 170+ floats/parade entries. Approximately 5,000+\- parade attendees filling Main St from curb to storefront the entire parade route. Arguably, one of the largest parades in FDL history

Most proud of? Smiles, kids celebrating USA (& candy 😂), AND…

For two hours we were ONE community celebrating together without division…unity❤️🎊🇺🇸❤️

06/30/2026