HomeMy WebLinkAboutJuneteenth_6.20.2009 P R O C L A M A T I O N
WHEREAS, June 19, 2009, marks the 144th Anniversary
of the day Texas slaves were officially free; and
WHEREAS, June 1865, commemorates the day General
Gordon Granger landed at Galveston, Texas to take charge of the
State of Texas and announced that Texas slaves were free; and
WHEREAS, Juneteenth will be celebrated by the City of
Georgetown, sponsored by the Georgetown Cultural Citizen
Memorial Association on June 20, 2009;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE GARVER, MAYOR
OF THE CITY OF GEORGETOWN, TEXAS, do hereby
proclaim June 20, 2009, as the time for commemoration of
Juneteenth in Georgetown, Texas.