Juneteenth 2023 hours for Johnson County departments and offices
Most Johnson County governmental departments and offices will be closed on Monday, June 19, 2023, in observance of Juneteenth.
Juneteenth commemorates the end of slavery in the United States. On June 19, 1865, 2 ½ years after the Emancipation Proclamation, Union soldiers sailed into Galveston, Texas, and read aloud the order, freeing a quarter of a million slaves who were residing in the state.
Detailed schedule changes follow.