5 /5 Shahram Tabibzadegan: This is a historic location and building. The Reedy Chapel is the starting point of the Emancipation Trail, a 51-mile trail used by newly freed slaves and other people of African descent in the 19th century. When Major General Gordon Granger of the union army arrived in Galveston with the news that all slaves were free, many emancipated individuals walked to freedom from this location at Reedy Chapel. That event led to the celebration of June Teen, now a national Federal Holiday. Thereās only one other trail of its kind in the United States that focuses on African Americans and their experiences: the Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail. The Emancipation Trail includes Independence Heights, Freedmenās Town and Emancipation Park in Houston. It also includes the site of Galvestonās Osterman building, where the Union Army General told the people of Galveston that all slaves were free.