04 December 2015

The Other First Thanksgiving

4 December 1619 

#KnowSouthernHistory 


On this date in 1619...

Thirty-eight colonists arrived from England and ventured ashore to settle the Berkeley Hundred land grant along the James River. The colonists observed a day of prayer and Thanksgiving for their safe passage to the New World and December Fourth became a "yearly and perpetually kept holy" Thanksgiving Day per the plantation charter.

Other Years:


  • 1954 - The first Burger King is opened in Miami, Florida.


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