Recognition, recreation and education: Jefferson County celebrates Emancipation Day

Denise Vickers - Leon ECB Publishing, Inc. There was something for everyone, on every level in Jefferson County on May 20, to commemorate Emancipation Day, the day when the proclamation by President Abraham Lincoln abolishing slavery in Florida was read on the steps of the Knott House in Tallahassee. The Community Friends of Jefferson County, which has been hosting celebration events since 2009 at various churches and on other rural properties, decided to relocate this year to the Jefferson