Juneteenth marks the end of slavery in America, when the last enslaved people in the United States, in Galveston, Texas, finally heard that they were free. That was June of 1865. Connecticut only abolished slavery 17 years earlier.
BY MICHAEL PUFFER REPUBLICAN-AMERICAN
1884
WATERBURY, CT 051021JS05þÄîWaterbury residents Ananalisse Cruz and Thomas DuPre enjoy lunch in the newly renovated Library Park in Waterbury on Monday. Jim Shannon Republican American
WATERBURY As director of the Silas Bronson Library, Raechel Guest had a better view than most of $2.4 million in renovations to neighboring Library Park over the past 20…
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