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Old 11-25-2009, 03:11 PM   #27
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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe View Post
I'd like to take this time to note that the Jamestown settlers weren't the first to hold a Thanksgiving celebration in my country, only the first to hold one in English. Before the Virginian celebration, French Huguenot colonists, on June 30, 1564, celebrated Thanksgiving at a settlement near Jacksonville, Florida. And before that, there was a Spanish Thanksgiving in Texas celebrated by explorer Francisco Vasquez de Coronado and 1,500 of his men in May of 1541.

Happy Thanksgiving, history buffs!
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Tom, the people of St. Augustine, Florida, claim that the Spanish who landed there were the first, but I forget the date.
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