Birthday Cake entry will celebrate Town at age 45
Farragut Museum will have a new entry, or “float,” for the Town of Farragut’s 37th Independence Day parade starting at 9:30 a.m., Friday, July 4, on Kingston Pike from Lendon Welch Way westward to just past Boring Road.
In recognition of the Town’s 45th Anniversary, the Farragut Museum committee has chosen to feature a birthday cake on its new entry. Town’s Parks Maintenance department constructed a 10-foot-tall cake replica that can be used for many occasions.
“The committee was very thoughtful about the design of the new float,” Historic Resources coordinator Kristi Vining said. “Next year, the float will be used to honor the 250th birthday of America, and in the future the float will commemorate Admiral David Farragut’s birthday on July 5, 1801.”
Previously, the committee had an entry modeled after the USS Hartford. “That float was built by (the late) Lou LaMarche in 2016 and signified the ship used by Admiral Farragut in the Battle of Mobile Bay,” a museum press release stated.
