Clay Road Baptist Church
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A Great Jubilee Day was first held on Monday, May 26, 1783 in what is now, Trumbull, Connecticut, to commemorate the end of fighting in the American Revolutionary War. The celebration included feasting, prayer, speeches, toasts, and two companies of militia performing maneuvers, with cannon blasts. It continued as Decoration Day and later Memorial Day, the day set aside to honor those that fell in battle…