♪ >> In a sense of place celebrated Juneteenth at Katyn town missionary that.

>> His church with stories about Fayette County's Hamlets.

The initiative was launched last year to remember and celebrate the rule black communities that developed in the 1800's.

>> One of the things that we know the African-American community is that we have a strong connection to place.

And those places they mean something to us.

They mean something to our history.

And so we wanted to make sure that we created a sense of place in our community is showing the contribution that African-Americans made all throughout Lexington of the project that we are involved in is called the Hamlet Project.

>> And it is rule community farm by African Americans immediately after the Civil War most of them would have started in 18.

65 after emancipation of December.

The 18th 18.

65.

>> When the 13th amendment was passed, today is our second Juneteenth for the a sense of place initiative.

And it is.

>> To remember and celebrate like since its historic role.

Black Hamlet.

Well, I think it's important that, you know, they just don't know where you are going to our need to go and let you know your history.

>> And to have this rich, rich history for months like people who just I did everything on peonies, they weren't rich by any means.

So documenting that history.

And putting it down on paper and having the older residents who remember this to actually be court, their memories will help us.

Document the Heat.

Our secret histories.

>> We automatically talk about African American history and associated with But there have been so many accomplishments that it happens.

They purchase property in these areas.

The Rosenwald school when he read about Rosenwald schools, the amount of money day.

I'm black community had to raise in order to build the Rosenwald schools and their community.

It's just astonishing.

I'm the type of community and networking they had with each other.

It's it's.

It's more anything that can imagine at this time because we don't you know, we don't live in a closely knit community anymore, but if we could take some of those principles and apply them today at think we could see exponential growth support, we could see just our communities thrive in jail.

♪ >> According to a sense of place, more than 20 hamlets developed in rural Fayette County between 18, 26 and 1924.

Juneteenth is a celebration of the end of chattel slavery in the United States.

But there were enslaved people being held captive in some states even after June 19th 18.

65 and Kentucky was one of them Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation only freed enslaved people in Confederate states for slave states.

Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland and Delaware did not secede from the union.

So they were not covered by the Emancipation Proclamation.

There were still some enslaved people in the United States up until the 13th amendment was ratified in December of 18.

65 that 6 months after Juneteenth now in parts of Kentucky, August 8th is also a day to celebrate the end of slavery.

There are different theories about why some say it's because August 8th 18 63 is the day future.

President Andrew Johnson freed his own slaves.

Others say it's because that's the day word of the Emancipation Proclamation actually reached western Kentucky.

Another interesting Kentucky know about Juneteenth when Union forces liberated enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, they were commanded by General Gordon Granger.

General Granger is actually buried in Kentucky.

>> His grave is in Lexington, but he wasn't born in Kentuckyian he didn't die here.

Granger is buried in Lexington because his wife, it's from Lexington.

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