Juneteenth Celebration
Metuchen Town Plaza 33 Pearl Street, Metuchen, NJ, United StatesA celebration throughout the Metuchen Downtown for JuneteenthWhat is Juneteenth? On June 19, 1865, about two years after the Confederate general Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox, Va., Gordon Granger, a Union general, arrived in Galveston, Texas, to inform enslaved African-Americans of their freedom and that the Civil War had ended. General Granger’s announcement put…