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Plymouth rocked: Florida historian claims St. Augustine was the site of the first Thanksgiving

Standard Turkey Day history says that the first feast happened in 1621, as Plymouth Rock Pilgrims in Massachusetts shared their harvest with their Native American neighbors. Not … so … fast, says Florida historian Michael Gannon. His research shows that colonists in St. Augustine celebrated a Thanksgiving feast with Native Americans more than half a century earlier […]

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