The first national Thanksgiving Day did not invoke ... on the statue dedicated to him overlooking Plymouth Rock. But his decision to allow the Pilgrims to stay at Patuxet and eventually provide ...

he was bereft because that wharf was going to cover up what we now know as Plymouth Rock. By all accounts, the very first time anyone mentions any rock in conjunction with the Pilgrims landing ...

1. The Pilgrims didn't land on Plymouth Rock. The English colonists who ended up at the center of Thanksgiving folklore never mentioned the famed rock when they recalled first setting foot on ...

For many, Thanksgiving brings to mind images of Plymouth Rock, the pilgrims, and traditional dishes like oven-roasted turkey and pumpkin pie. But what if I told you that the very first ...

In addition to those dates, we also thrown in some Thanksgiving trivia, like where the Pilgrims first landed in America (hint: it's not Plymouth Rock), when the first Thanksgiving occurred and ...

We are accustomed to thinking of the Pilgrims at Plymouth and the neighboring Wampanoag tribe of Massachusetts as the first to celebrate Thanksgiving, but some scholars say that isn’t accurate.

Although the Mayflower landed on Plymouth Rock in November of 1620, the first Thanksgiving or harvest celebration between the Pilgrims and the Native Americans wasn't until a year later ...