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Bucklins often meet when Rhode Island celebrates history with Gaspee Days,  a two day Revolutionary War celebration in June!  

Join in celebrating Joseph Bucklin's shot in 1772Rhode Island recognizes the shot by Joseph Bucklin as the "First Shot in the Revolution".  Be proud, have fun,  and join in the events!

View Bucklin sites in Rhode Island.

Have fun with Colonial history.

The Gaspee Parade on Saturday

Each year - on the  second Saturday in June.    Get ready - make plans - Now! - for Pawtuxet, RI (Providence area)  Colonial fife & drum corps, and much more! The Philadelphia Mummers are the grand finale unit. Following the parade there is a Colonial Muster, in which selected units compete in colonial music or drill.

If a Joseph Bucklin Society representative is at the parade Bucklins can meet each other. At the ParadeBucklin Society flag serves as meeting point at Gaspee Days Reviewing Stand before the parade, you may see a Bucklin Society Flag (see picture on the right) as a meeting point for Bucklins. Meet us at the Flag! At the Muster after the parade you may see a Bucklin Society Flag (see picture on the right) as a meeting point for Bucklins. (The Muster is held at Pawtuxet Park, a couple of blocks from the Parade Reviewing Stand.)

See lots of photos of the Gaspee Days parades.

Bucklin family activities on Friday.

Tour various sites of interest involving Bucklin and colonial Gaspee era history . Visit the area of William Bucklin's original 600 acres, including Bucklin Landing and Bucklin Island, the Newman Burial Ground and the North Burial Ground, and have lunch at the Bucklin Arcade.  YOU  MUST contact us and we will tell give you more information.  Unless you contact us we do not know you are coming and cannot work with you to make your trip more enjoyable.Send us a message!

Rhode Island  is the place to celebrate the Gaspee attack, Joseph Bucklin 5th shot in the capture of the English ship,  American Colonial History, the Revolution, and the start of the Revolutionary War.

Gaspee in the Park on Sunday.

Colonial Battle Maneuvers & Uniform Fashion Show   Revolutionary War era uniform fashion show, with enactors explaining how the soldiers lived and worked.

Sample Bucklin Sightseeing Activities in past years.

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