FREE ADMISSION SATURDAY, JUNE 16, 2012 NOON TO 8:00 pm Located at the corner of Tulagi Place and Rte. 235 in downtown Lexington Park, Maryland				Click here for Directions to the Juneteenth Celebration at Freedom Park Tulagi Place Lexington Park, Maryland
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Juneteenth is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States. On June 19, 1865, two months after the surrender of General Lee and more than two years after Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, General Granger of the Union Army landed in Galveston, Texas and issued General Order No. 3 . . . ALL SLAVES ARE FREE . . .