The President’s Park: Why make a new one when we have decomposing Commanders-in-Chief already around!?

It was a ten-acre sculpture park and had an associated indoor museum formerly located in Williamsburg, Virginia in the United States. It contained 18 to 20 foot high busts of the Presidents of the United States from George Washington to George W. Bush.. it closed in 2010 and since then has provided years of creepy photos, lightning strikes, and bees’ nests taking over the eyes of former Chief Executives.

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The general of Juneteenth

The Civil War ended in April 1865 and two months later, on June 19, 1865, Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger of the Union Army issued General Order No. 3 in Galveston, Texas, with Granger saying, “The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free.”

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