Elgin’s Juneteenth Festival will be held Saturday and Sunday, June 18 and 19, at Festival Park. Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day, marks the day when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas in 1865 to take control of the state and to proclaim and ensure all enslaved people were freed. The troops’ arrival came 2½ years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation which ended slavery. It was made a federal holiday in 2021.
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