Heads up! Our Graham, Vernon, and Wichita Falls offices will be closed on Friday, June 19, in observance of Juneteenth.

Our Bowie office will remain open. Call (940) 872-2424 if you need any assistance.

All offices will reopen on Monday, June 22 at 8AM.

Juneteenth National Independence Day is a celebration on June 19th marking America’s second Independence Day.

“Even though the Emancipation Proclamation was made effective in 1863, it could not be implemented in places still under Confederate control. As a result, in the westernmost Confederate state of Texas, enslaved people would not be free until much later. Freedom finally came on June 19, 1865, when some 2,000 Union troops arrived in Galveston Bay, Texas. The army announced that the more than 250,000 enslaved black people in the state, were free by executive decree. This day came to be known as ‘Juneteenth,’ by the newly freed people in Texas.”

(Source: Smithsonian nmaahc.si.edu)