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Rolesville Freedom In The Park

Rolesville Freedom In The Park, Juneteenth Celebration

Saturday, June 21, 2025 | 2:00 PM - 6:00 PM | Mill Bridge Nature Park

Join us at Mill Bridge Nature Park to celebrate Juneteenth with live performances, educational information, family activities, great food, and local businesses! 

Performers
ARTIST
Pub-Lick Jam
Eugene Taylor
The Songbird Raven
Shavonna Antoinette
Tish Songbird
Vendors
VENDOR NAME
Body Biology
Bracelets by Booget
Cozy Creations
GG Beads
Heartbeat RT, LLC
House of sticks
KB's Designs & Crafts
Koi Pond Brewing Company
MycreationElizabeth
Sandy’s Scoops and Cafe
SoulBachi LLC
Southern fried
Speak To Me Expressions
St Popperville Kettlecorn
Tar Banks Brewing Company
Thorne to Rose Foundation
Window Nation
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Vendor Application

We are looking for food vendors and local businesses. If you are interested in being a vendor at the 2025 Rolesville Freedom At The Park, Juneteenth Celebration please fill out the vendor application below.

The Vendor Application will be open from March 31, 2025 - May 23, 2025

Vendor Application

If you have any questions please contact the Special Events Coordinator at 919-554-6582.


Juneteenth History

Juneteenth is the oldest known celebration commemorating the ending of slavery in the United States. A combination of the words “June” and “nineteenth,” Juneteenth commemorates Union Major General Gordon Granger’s reading of the ‘General Order Number 3’ in the City of Galveston, Texas freeing enslaved people on June 19, 1865. The reading of ‘General Order Number 3’ came 2 and a half years after President Abraham Lincoln enacted the Emancipation Proclamation on September 22, 1862. News and enforcement of the proclamation had been slow to reach remote areas of the United States. 

Today, Juneteenth celebrates African American freedom and achievement, while encouraging continuous self-development and respect for all cultures.

General Granger’s 'General Order Number 3' began with:

"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 rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and hired laborer."


Sponsors

United Arts Wake County
 

Mill Bridge Nature Park