Lansdale Memorial Day Parade: What To Know

LANSDALE, PA — Memorial Day weekend is just days away.

Lansdale will host their annual parade on Monday, May 28 at 9 a.m. The parade will begin on Main Street. A ceremony will take place at 10 a.m. at Memorial Park.

The event is being sponsored by the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post No. 32, The Virgillio Schembri Battavio Post No. 23, and the American Legion William Hare Post No. 206.

Children and family members of all ages are invited to decorate their bicycles or wagons and participate in the parade. Line up will begin at 8:30 a.m. near the intersection with Cannon Avenue.

All area Boy Scouts, Cub Scouts, and Girl Scouts are also invited to participate in the parade.

Memorial Day was once known as Decoration Day, and Americans began to observe it as a holiday three years after the end of the Civil War. It began as a day to decorate the graves of fallen soldiers. Memorial Day wasn't declared a national holiday until 1971 and has since been observed annually on the last Monday in May.

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