Mrs. Gracy Murray Stephenson, Juneteenth Celebration, June 19, 1900. Collection Austin History Center (PICA 05746). The Austin History Center records that the photograph was taken in "East Woods" on East 24th Street.
Black West Austin Drving Tour
Explore the African-American Histories Just Outside Our Door
Wednesday, June 14 - Sunday, June 25, 2023
(Available During Museum Hours, Wed-sun | 11am-4pm)
inculded with Museum Admission
On June 19, 1865 Union General Gordon Granger read General Order #3 on a balcony in Galveston, TX. The order began:
The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and hired labor.
Join us (June 14-25) for a tour of West Austin African American history. The tour begins at the Neill-Cochran House Museum and winds through historic sites of Wheatville and Clarksville, two of the original fifteen freedman communities established in Austin after the end of the Civil War. The tour includes access to videos for each stop that explore the history of the site and create connections between the past and present.
SITES ON THE TOUR INCLUDE
The Neill-Cochran House Museum
The Jacob Fontaine Building
Pease Plantation (Woodlawn)
Pease Park
Charles Clark Homestead
Elias Mays Homestead
Sweet Home Missionary Baptist Church
Mary Smith Homestead
Haskell House
Pease Plantation Wall