Village Hall Closed Friday for Juneteenth

Village Hall will be closed this Friday in honor the Juneteenth holiday, which was was officially designated a New York State public holiday in late 2020.

Juneteenth is a day which commemorates the end to slavery in the United States and celebrates Black and African American freedom and achievements, while encouraging continuous self-development and respect for all cultures.

Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, when the news of liberation came to Texas more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation went into effect on January 1, 1863. African Americans across the state were made aware of their right to freedom on this day when Major General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston with federal troops to read General Order No. 3 announcing the end of the Civil War and that all enslaved were now free, as well as to maintain a presence in Texas for the purpose of enforcement of emancipation among slave-owners throughout the state.

If you’d like to learn more about this holiday you can click on the following link to the wikipedia article about the holiday https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juneteenth.