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Every summer, Americans across the nation celebrate Juneteenth, the annual June 19 holiday that commemorates the official end of slavery in the U.S. On that day in 1865, Union Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, to enforce President Abraham Lincoln s Emancipation Proclamation, the document signed two years earlier that freed the nation s enslaved people.
But in Florida, the date of May 20, 1865, might hold even more significance. One month before Granger made it to Galveston, Union Brigadier Gen. Edward M. McCook stopped in Tallahassee to make a similar announcement. Down the street from the state Capitol at the Hagner House (today the Knott House Museum), McCook declared that all Black people were now free citizens of the United States. The news which, before the days of mass media and the invention of the telephone, came as a surprise to many was toasted at a celebratory picnic at Tallahassee s Bull s Pond by those who d been enslaved.
Historic Harrisburg city home with views of Susquehanna River for $182K: Cool Spaces
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This historic Shipoke neighborhood home, built in the late 1850s, has a view of the Susquehanna River and is located across from Riverfront Park.
The three-story brick home retains many of its original features such as hand-hewn wide plank wood floors in most of the rooms, transoms, double door foyer vestibule entry, original door hardware, 9-foot ceilings, original staircase and some of the gas light fixtures are retained in the second and third floor.
Union Brigadier General Joseph Farmer Knipe lived in the home from 1866-80. A historical marker from the Harrisburg History Project sits across the street from the home. Another marker on the front of the home attests to the heritage of the property.
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