Juneteenth event is free and open to all June 14 as everyone celebrates freedom, heritage, and the local community downtown Mansfield.

Jason Ogg stood at the edge of the vacant lot, steps away from a steep and slightly overgrown hill. The sun beat down on a group of volunteers, who stood in a semi circle awaiting instructions.

Read this story and more North Texas business news from our partners at the Dallas Business Journal The revitalization of downtown Midlothian ... after the original in Mansfield.

Mansfield fire Chief Dan Crow said the monument downtown is a tribute to all Mansfield firefighters, past, present and future.

The Mansfield community will celebrate the 4th ... Union General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas to inform enslaved African Americans of their freedom and the end of the Civil War.