WHAT:

• Juneteenth

WHEN:

• Friday, June 19, 2026

WHERE:

• Jackson Street Pier
• Fireworks wrap up the day celebration (about 9:30pm-10:00pm)

HOST:

• Greater Sandusky Partnership
• Destination Sandusky
• City of Sandusky

PURPOSE:

• It is a Federal holiday - unless the First Felon cancels it
• Commemorates the end of slavery in the United States - June 19, 1865 - when Major General Gordon Granger ordered the final enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation in Texas at the end of the American Civil War