Twins Days Festival in Twinsburg
Twins Days is an annual festival of twins held on each August
in the Cleveland suburb of Twinsburg, Ohio, United States. It is one of
the largest gathering of twins in the world with approximately 3,000
sets attending each year. The weekend of events attracts twins,
multiples and their families from all over the world, many returning
year after year. Events at the festival include include food, live
entertainment, a golf tournament, a "twins" parade, talent shows,
look-alike contests and lots more.
Twins Days began in 1976 in
with just 37 sets of twins in attendance. The festival grew steadily
each year to be the largest gathering of twins in the world. Thousands
of fraternal and identical twins, triplets, and other multiples and
their families twins converge on Twinsburg each year.
Twinsburg
is named after a pair of identical twins named Moses and Aaron Wilcox
who, in 1819, offered the town 6 acres of land for a public square and
$20 toward starting the first school if the residents agreed to change
the name of the town to Twinsburg. And thus Millsville became Twinsberg.
Moses and Aaron Wilcox were reportedly so identical that only
their closest friends could tell them apart. They were lifelong business
partners, held all their property in common, married sisters, had the
same number of children, contracted the same fatal ailment and died
within hours of each other. They are buried in the same grave in
Twinsburg’s Locust Grove Cemetery.
