Rare Declaration of Independence copy draws crowds to UVA Rotunda

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) – Hundreds of visitors lined up at the University of Virginia’s Rotunda on Monday, February 16 to view one of the nation’s earliest printed copies of the Declaration of Independence.

The rare document is one of just 26 surviving Dunlap Broadsides, and was displayed to mark President’s Day and America’s 250th anniversary.

The broadside on display is known as the McGregor Copy, purchased by the library in the 1950s using endowed funds for the Tracy W. McGregor Library of American History…

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