06/17/2026
The Museum of Salado, Texas will be closed this Friday in celebration of Juneteenth. This holiday marks the day in 1865 when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, to ensure all enslaved people were freed, more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation. Though President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, it wasn’t until June 19, 1865, that Union Major General Gordon Granger arrived in Texas to read "General Order No. 3," finally enforcing the freedom of 250,000 enslaved Black Texans.
