Retreat City HallFM Road 709 and FM Road 2555Friday July 3, 20266:00 pm – 8:00 pm  Celebrate our country’s 1776 Founding with the Republican Party of Navarro County.  Join us for Family Fun, Food, and Fellowship. Activities For ChildrenCrafts and coloring activities for children Activities For All AgesSupport our active military.

Honoring the courage, service, and sacrifice of those who gave all. Brent Thompson statue Corner of South Beaton Street and East Sixth Avenue, in downtown Corsicana Speaker: Navarro County Sheriff Elmer Tanner July 6, 2026 at 6:00 pm For more information call (903) 851-5288

June 19, 1865 Juneteenth is the oldest known celebration commemorating the end of slavery in the United States.  It was June 19, 1865 that the Union soldiers, led by General Gordon Granger, landed at Galveston, Texas with news that the war had ended and that the enslaved were now free.  Note: this was two and a half years after President Lincoln ‘s Emancipation Proclamation — which had become official January 1, 1863.  The Emancipation Proclamation had little impact on the Texans due to the minimal number of Union troops to enforce the new Executive Order.  However, with the surrender of […]