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| History of Thanksgiving Day ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thanksgiving is a November holiday that Americans celebrate in honor of a feast between English settlers and Native Americans. The first American Thanksgiving was celebrated in 1621, to commemorate the harvest reaped by the Plymouth Colony after a harsh winter. In that year Governor William Bradford proclaimed a day of thanksgiving. The colonists (The Pilgrims) celebrated it as a traditional English harvest feast, to which they invited the local Wampanoag Indians. Days of thanksgiving were celebrated throughout the colonies after fall harvests. All thirteen colonies did not, however, celebrate Thanksgiving at the same time until October 1777. George Washington was the first president to declare the holiday, in 1789. |
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| Fun Sites for Kids for the Holidays |
Kids Stuff Museum of
Nature & Science
(formerly the Dallas
Museum of Natural History
and The Science Place)
Nature & Science
(formerly the Dallas
Museum of Natural History
and The Science Place)
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