The Town of Mount Pleasant got a head start Saturday in celebrating America's 250th birthday.

The America 250 Committee and other community organizations hosted a kickoff dinner that also celebrated the important role that Mount Pleasant played in the nation's history.

"There were two different factions that were fighting and we were in the middle of it. The people fought to protect the land and that's why we have Mount Pleasant, which back then, was not so pleasant as I said," explained Town Supervisor Carl Fulgenzi.

Dinner guests also came dressed in the fashions of the time, the year 1776.

"Whenever there's an opportunity for us to come out and represent the people who fought so hard for our freedom, especially for something like this, that is around that time period, we like to get out and have people meet us and ask questions if they want to, and learn about what the people who lived here did at the time that the Revolutionary War was going on," said Cynthia Kauffman, of Daughters of Liberty's Legacy.

Additional celebrations will be held each month until November. There will also be more such events in the town that is so proud of its history and the nation.

"We will have fun activities for young people, historical presentations and a bus tour that takes people through the town to show you the revolutionary path that soldiers took in the Town of Mount Pleasant," said America 250 Committee Chair Laurie Rogers-Smalley.