It's only a day before America celebrates one of its most awaiting traditions, Thanksgiving. This custom has been commemorated for about five centuries until today. For many years, it was believed that Pilgrims were the first people to gather together on a Thanksgiving eve.
However, new findings revealed that the very first Thanksgiving celebration happened 50 years earlier from that time. So before Americans cut their turkeys and eat their pies, here are some facts about where it originates and the reason why it's still being celebrated up to this time.
According to Kathleen Deagan, research curator emerita of historical archaeology at the Florida Museum of Natural History, at the University of Florida, the Thanksgiving observance began on 1571, near Matanzas River in St. Augustine, Florida, fifty years before the Pilgrims remembered this special occasion.
