The Houston Freedmen’s Town Conservancy, established in 2018, is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to protecting and preserving the history of Freedmen’s Town for the benefit of future generations. The Conservancy “Tells the Story of Freedom” through education and engagement with visitors from around the world through heritage tourism, cultural programming, and exhibitions, revealing the unique and largely untold history of Freedmen’s Town, a pivotal chapter in Houston’s and America’s past.

Freedmen’s Town, the child of Juneteenth, was settled shortly after June 19, 1865, along Buffalo Bayou in Houston’s Fourth Ward. Freedmen’s Town is a beacon to the world: an opportunity to celebrate the bounty reaped by freedom in all its forms.