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Memorial Day Observance Parade

All participants of the roving parade will assemble at the Topsfield Fair Grounds Parking Lot A at 9:00am, The parade will kick off at 9:30am.   The parade participants will consist of the following:

Military Veterans

Topsfield Fire Department

Topsfield Police Department

Topsfield Council of Aging

Topsfield Highway Department

Topsfield Water Department

Topsfield Parks and Cemetery

Topsfield Fair

Motorcycle Survivors

 

The procession will be led by a Topsfield Police Department Motorcycle Officer followed by a couple of convertible vehicles with a veteran seated in the front passenger seat followed by the fire department, police department, Council of Aging, Highway Department, water department, parks and cemetery and then by residents and guests that want to participate.   

The route is designed to maximize the exposure with as little disruption to traffic and intersections; The route is as follows:

 

Topsfield Fair Grounds to South Main Street

Left onto Prospect Street

Right onto River Road

 

Right onto Washington Street

Left onto Parsonage Lane

Right onto Barehill Road

Right onto Haverhill Road

Left onto Ipswich Road

Right up to Great Hill Drive.  Do the Loop at Great Hill and then exit Great Hill by taking a right back onto Ipswich Road

Left onto North Street

Continue to Campmeeting Rd.

Campmeeting Rd. to Ipswich Lane

Right onto Ipswich Road

Left onto Brookside

Right onto and Perkins Row

Perkins Row to Central Street

Right onto Main Street

Continue on Main Street to Pine Grove Cemetery and turn into the cemetery and make a loop around the cemetery.

 

At the cemetery, a brief ceremony of raising the flag and the reading the names of the Topsfield veterans that have passed away.

 

Ceremony will conclude and participants will exit the cemetery.