The 150th anniversary of Juneteenth took place on Saturday, June 20, 2015 and Wesley Chapel Nissan is a proud annual sponsor. A great group of vendors, entertainers, guests, and of course many volunteers made this a tremendous event. Public relations manager Troy Stevenson and Owner Mark Perryman attended this event. June 19 is known as Juneteenth Independence Day, Freedom Day, or Emancipation Day, and marks the anniversary of the abolition of slavery in Texas on June 19, 1865 and more generally throughout the Confederate South. The term is a portmanteau of “June” and “nineteenth” and commemorates the date when the Union General Gordon Granger arrived at Galveston Island, Texas with 2,000 troops to establish a federal presence in Texas and officially free slaves in the once republic.
