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PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles City Council approved the construction of a sidewalk on the north side of West Lauridsen Boulevard at Lincoln Park for this summer despite discussion of other ...

What has been reported, leading up to June 19 being decreed a federal holiday in 2021, was that U.S. Army Gen. Gordon Granger ...

A date that speaks of freedom delayed. On that day, Union Army General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas and announced what should have already been a reality. The Emancipation Proclamation, ...

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A South Carolina park was once a town founded by freed people. Now visitors sleep there to get close to history.