{"id":6601,"date":"2014-11-24T07:00:31","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T15:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/?p=6601"},"modified":"2014-11-24T16:18:08","modified_gmt":"2014-11-25T00:18:08","slug":"thanksgiving-remembered-19th-century-frontier-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/thanksgiving-remembered-19th-century-frontier-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Celebrated the \u201cFirst Thanksgiving\u201d?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Detail of a Photographic Reproduction of J.L.G. Ferris’s Early-20th Century Painting, “First Thanksgiving.”<\/p><\/div>\n

If you guessed \u201cPlymouth Colonists,\u201d You might be surprised\u2026<\/p>\n

In May 1541, Spanish explorer Francisco Vasquez de Coronado and 1,500 men celebrated at the Palo Dur Canyon — located in the modern-day Texas Panhandle — after their expedition from Mexico City in search of gold. In 1959 the Texas Society Daughters of the American Colonists commemorated the event as the “first Thanksgiving.”<\/p>\n

Another “first Thanksgiving” occurred on June 30, 1564, when French Huguenot colonists celebrated in a settlement near Jacksonville, Florida. This “first Thanksgiving,” was later commemorated at the Fort Carolina Memorial on the St. Johns River in eastern Jacksonville.<\/p>\n

The harsh winter of 1609-1610 generated a famine that caused the deaths of 430 of the 490 settlers. In the spring of 1610, colonists in Jamestown, Virginia, enjoyed a Thanksgiving service after English supply ships arrived with food. This colonial celebration has also been considered the “first Thanksgiving.”<\/p>\n

Learn more about these early Thanksgiving celebrations in the Thanksgiving Timeline, 1541-2001<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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