Where was the first Thanksgiving held in North America?
If you guessed Plymouth, Massachusetts, guess again. On April 30, 1598, Spanish nobleman Don Juan de Oate and a group of settlers traveling northward from Zacatecas, Nueva Espaa (now Mexico), reached the banks of El Rio Bravo (Rio Grande). The first recorded act of thanksgiving by colonizing Europeans on this continent occurred on that April day in 1598 in Nuevo Mexico, about 25 miles south of what is now El Paso, Texas. . . . Read the entire article by Richard Eastman at http://www.eogn.com/archives/news0247.htm#FirstThanksgiving.
