As the Hitching Lot Farmers Market wound down Saturday, a nearby street began to pack full of people. These were not random bystanders. These people were there for a reason.
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In Columbus, May 8 or Eight ‘o May is recognized as Emancipation Day, commemorating the day federal troops arrived in the city and informed enslaved citizens they had been freed.