Lace up your running shoes

 

Attention runners and ambitious walkers. Registration is now open for the second annual Run to Revolution 5k to be held on Saturday, October 4 at Elk Hill in western Goochland.

The historic  Elk Hill property (https://goochlandhistory.wordpress.com/2016/01/31/thomas-jeffersons-elk-hill/  is now home to a facility that helps troubled youth get their lives back on track (https://www.elkhill.org/).  

Run to Revolution is sponsored by the Goochland 250 Commission, which was created by the Board of Supervisors in 2022 to commemorate the founding of our great nation and remind Americans how our country came to be.

Next July 4, we will celebrate the 250^th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia. Although the document was the result of collaboration of several people, Thomas Jefferson, who Goochlanders tend to consider a local boy because he spent part of his childhood at Tuckahoe Plantation in the east end, is credited with its authorship.

Go to https://runsignup.com/Race/VA/Goochland/RuntotheRevolution for sign up information or to donate to fund other activities of the Goochland 250 Commission.

Signed months after the “shot heard ‘round the world” was fired in Massachusetts, the Declaration was an early event in the long and bitter struggle for independence that ended with the 1783 Treaty of Paris. In the interim, many signers of the Declaration lost everything to secure liberty for the 13 colonies.