Twins Day Festival
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Twins Day Festival
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The Twins Day Festival is held in the City of Twinsburg Ohio. In 1818, a pair of identical twins named Moses and Aaron Wilcox from Killingworth, Connecticut, purchased 4,000 acres of land and began selling small parcels at low prices to attract other settlers. The Wilcox twins offered 6 acres of land for a public square and $20.00 toward starting the first school if the residents would change the settlement’s name from Millsville to Twinsburg. |
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In 1976, a small group of dedicated people planning Twinsburg’s participation in the bicentennial celebration that year decided to set aside one day for twins. The Twins Day Festival started with a flag raising and dedication of the Wilcox Monument on the square and the dedication of the first picnic shelter at Glenn Chamberlin Park. It has been an annual event ever since. The Twins Days Festival is recorded as the Largest Annual Gathering of Twins in the World by the Guinness Book of World Records. For non twins like me it is just very interesting to see all the twins coming and going. We used to live in the town of Aurora Ohio which neighbors Twinsburg. |
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