Green Cove Springs, FL – All Clay County government offices will be closed on Monday, June 20, 2022, in observance of the Juneteenth holiday. Closures will include the County Administration and Public Works buildings, Clerk of Court and Comptroller’s Office, Clay County Courthouse, Property Appraiser, Tax Collector, Supervisor of Elections, and Sheriff’s Office Non-Emergency Administration Offices. Offices will reopen and resume scheduled hours on Tuesday, June 21, 2022.

Clay County Public Libraries will be open during regular hours on Monday, June 20, (10 a.m. to 8 p.m.)

The Rosemary Hill Solid Waste Management Facility will operate normal hours on Monday, June 20, (7:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.) Administrative offices will be closed. Curbside collection of garbage and yard waste will run as usual.

Please remember to place materials at the curb before 6 a.m.

Clay County Parks and Recreation- All Clay County parks will be open regular hours (sunrise to sunset) and all previously scheduled park activities and events will go on as scheduled including the Hunter-Douglass Summer Camp June 20-24.

Juneteenth is celebrated to honor one of the final acts of emancipation of slaves in the United States. It is also known as African American Freedom Day or Emancipation Day.

Juneteenth traces its origins back to Galveston, Texas where on June 19, 1865, Union soldiers, led by Major Gen. Gordon Granger landed in the city with news that the Civil War had ended and slaves were now free. The announcement came two-and-a-half years after President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation of Jan. 1, 1863, that freed slaves in Confederate states. 

This year, June 19 falls on a Sunday, so the federal holiday – established in 2021 by President Joe Biden – will be observed on Monday, June 20.