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Forget Plymouth, the first 'official' Thanksgiving was held in York

The York Dispatch
The statue of General Marquis de Lafayette in front of the Gates House and Plough Tavern in York City. (Bil Bowden - For The York Dispatch)

The pilgrims in Plymouth, Massachusetts, might have started the tradition more than 150 years earlier, but America's first "official" Thanksgiving was declared right here in York City by the Continental Congress:

York, Pennsylvania: home of the first official Thanksgiving of the United States

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