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Rockville to Celebrate Juneteenth with Montgomery County

The City of Rockville will once again join Montgomery County in celebrating Juneteenth, on Saturday, June 20 at BlackRock Center for the Arts, 12901 Town Commons Drive, in Germantown. 

Find more details about Juneteenth at blackrockcenter.org/juneteenth. 

Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, when the Union Army arrived in Texas bearing federal orders proclaiming the end of enslavement more than two years after President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. 

In July 2020, the Mayor and Council approved a resolution making Rockville the first municipality in Maryland to recognize Juneteenth as a paid city holiday. City facilities will be closed in observance of Juneteenth on Friday, June 19.