More than 1,000 Flushing residents gathered at Francis Lewis High School on June 29 to celebrate America’s 250th anniversary with State Sen. John Liu, sealing a community time capsule that will sit at a Queens library for the next 50 years, according to QNS.

The capsule, which contains family photos, artwork, letters, newspaper clippings, and New York Knicks championship relics, is set to be opened on July 4, 2076, the nation’s tricentennial. It will go on public display at the Flushing branch of Queens Public Library starting in early July, QNS reported.

Francis Lewis High School is named for the Queens resident and Founding Father who signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776. Queens Borough Historian Jason Antos delivered a historical account of Lewis at the event and called the celebration a “historic event.” “It is extraordinary to know that a signer of the Declaration of Independence lived here in 1776 and that his family and property paid the ultimate price at the hands of the British army,” Antos said, per QNS.