LEVERETT — A large wooden cake that has served to mark milestone anniversaries for communities across the region, most recently being displayed for Deerfield’s 350th anniversary, will arrive in Leverett later this month.

With the town preparing to embark on celebrating 250 years since its 1774 founding, the 2,000-pound cake, made from PVC plastic-covered wooden panels, will be disassembled from its current site in front of the South Deerfield Fire District and brought to Montague Road, likely on the morning of Oct. 29.

Eventually, the cake will be positioned on the Leverett Library side of the ballfield between that building and Leverett Elementary School, said Maureen Ippolito, a member of the town’s 250th Anniversary Committee.

The cake’s arrival will be among the first visual signs of work that has been ongoing for the past several years to prepare for the 250th anniversary. The next related activities will be volunteers planting bulbs at various sites throughout town this fall.

“Residents will be planting daffodil bulbs and Stella d’Oro daylilies at town intersections, so they will bloom next year,” Ippolito said.

The main event for the semiquincentennial will be held on July 6 at 10 a.m., when the 250th anniversary parade will step off. Following that will be a two-hour barbecue starting at 12:30 p.m.

Leverett’s 250th anniversary kickoff event is set for March 2 at the elementary school, where a pancake breakfast, sponsored by the Leverett Firefighters’ Association, will be held from 8 to 10:30 a.m.

Three days later, a commemorative postmark will debut, coinciding with the exact March 5, 1774, date of the town’s founding as it separated from Sunderland.

Then, on March 9 from 1 to 4 p.m. at the elementary school, there will be the birthday party for the town. During this, festivities will include traditional Native American games, old-timey games, musical and theatrical performances, local-themed refreshments, a birthday cake and gifts for those who attend.

Other activities on the calendar include April 10 at 7 p.m. at the elementary school, when Marge Bruchac will talk about the history of Indigenous peoples in town, and May 25 from 1 to 5 p.m., an antique vehicle and equipment show on the ballfield.

Tentatively, the year-long celebration will conclude with a fall harvest dance.

Already, there has been the unveiling of a tile mural “Past is Present is Future” by Judith Inglese, installed on the exterior of the library last year, and the creation of a logo that adorns various anniversary merchandise. The logo features a leafy tree with roots designed by Leverett artist Lori Lynn Hoffer that modernizes a logo designed by Stella Schoenhaut for the bicentennial 50 years ago.

The 250th Anniversary Committee is still soliciting photographs and records from the bicentennial and doing research into the town’s history.

For more information, go to leverett.ma.us/g/96/250th-Celebration or the Leverett 250th Anniversary Facebook page.

Scott Merzbach can be reached at smerzbach@gazettenet.com.