Decoration Day
Schedule
Mon, 25 May, 2026 at 11:00 am
UTC-04:00Location
11027 Clinton Avenue, Hagerstown, MD, United States, Maryland 21740 | Hagerstown, MD
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Our old-fashioned Decoration Day ceremony is a participatory and family-friendly event commemorating the nearly 400 black citizens of Hagerstown who were buried at Halfway African American Cemetery between 1897 and 1933, including fifteen military veterans of the Civil War and World War I. A brass quintet will provide live music, Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address will be read, and attendees will be invited to place flowers at the cemetery’s headstones during the program. Cemetery descendants will be among those making brief remarks.
The Decoration Day ceremony recalls the origins of Memorial Day at the end of the Civil War, when formerly enslaved people honored fallen Union soldiers. This soon became a national practice, named for the decoration of graves with flowers.
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