Juneteenth National Independence Day is a US federal holiday and is the first new federal holiday since Martin Luther King Jr. Day was designated in 1983. This means most banks and federal offices will be closed on Wednesday, June 19.
Juneteenth is a portmanteau word for June and nineteenth and commemorates the date that the Emancipation Proclamation was enforced in Galveston, TX, eliminating slavery completely in the United States. Galveston was one of the most remote regions that still had slaves, thus this enforcement freed the remaining enslaved peoples. Texas was the first state to declare Juneteenth a state holiday in 1980.
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The local holiday hours for Juneteenth 2024 are as follows:
SIPOA Offices will be open on Wednesday, June 19. Check sipoa.org for office hours.
The Town of Seabrook Island Office will be closed on Wednesday, June 19 for the holiday. They will reopen on Thursday, June 20, with normal hours. Check townofseabrook.org for office hours.
Vincent’s Pharmacy will be open on Wednesay, June 19 with normal hours.
Post and Computer Center will be open on Wednesday, June 19 with normal hours. UPS and Fedex will be making their runs, but the US Post Office will not be picking up or dropping off mail.
Harris Teeter will be open Wednesday, June 19 with normal hours.
Charleston County Public Library, including the Johns Island Branch on Maybank Highway, will be closed on June 19.
–Tidelines Editors
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