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"The First Thanksgiving at Plymouth" (1914) oil on canvas by Jennie A. Brownscombe. Americans are told the first Thanksgiving took place in 1621, when the Pilgrim settlers of Plymouth ...
In fact, only four English women hosted that first Thanksgiving feast — cooking, cleaning and serving over 140 people — according to the New England Historical Society. That included 90 ...
Find out how Thanksgiving got its start, plus facts about the first meal.
According to historians at Plimoth Patuxet, the 1621 event was not called "the First Thanksgiving" until the 1830s, more than two centuries after the original event. [7] [5] In 1841, a publishing of Winslow's account by Reverend Alexander Young noted that it was "the First Thanksgiving, the harvest festival of New England".
From the food to who was in attendance, here are the details about the origin of one of our favorite holidays. Thanksgiving dates back to 1621 in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
In fact, the first Thanksgiving may not have happened in Plymouth after all. According to the Library of Congress, a similar feast of gratitude took place in May 1541, nearly 80 years earlier, in ...
A food decoration for Erntedankfest, a Christian Thanksgiving harvest festival celebrated in Germany. The Harvest Thanksgiving Festival, Erntedankfest, is a popular Christian festival in some German municipalities on the first Sunday of October. The festival has a significant religious component, and many churches are decorated with autumn crops.
Thanksgiving is a federal holiday in the United States celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November (which became the uniform date country-wide in 1941). [2] [3] Outside the United States, it is sometimes called American Thanksgiving to distinguish it from the Canadian holiday of the same name and related celebrations in other regions.