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Plimoth Patuxet Museums to Celebrate Strawberry Thanksgiving

Annual Event Highlights Wampanoag Seasonal Traditions, Culture, and Community

Thanksgiving Sermon by Rev. Dr. Ezra Ripley, 1795

A Day of Gratitude, Community, and Tradition at Strawberry Thanksgiving

Plimoth Patuxet Museums Marks 400th Anniversary of Thanksgiving with New Exhibit

One of America’s quintessential holidays has its roots in Plymouth’s 1621 harvest feast

You Are The Historian: Investigating the First Thanksgiving Makes Historical Debut

Plimoth Patuxet Museums’ interactive online resources provide thought-stirring illumination of a rich and nuanced early history

Historic Patuxet Homesite

Learn about the 17th-century culture and lifeways of Wampanoag People at the Historic Patuxet Homesite.

Unit 5

Americans have long thought the history of the American holiday Thanksgiving to be relatively simple. The actual story of how the story of “the First Thanksgiving” was written and retold and how the holiday was developed and embraced by a nation is surprisingly complex. In many respects, the growth of the distinctly American holiday and the myth associated with it parallels (and continues to parallel) the development of the nation itself. In this unit, students will explore how the 1621 harvest feast came to be known as the First Thanksgiving, the country’s protean holiday, and how the meaning of the holiday changes as new meaning is layered.

One Museum. Centuries of History & Community.

One Museum. Centuries of History & Community.

So Much More!

From our Cinema to Museum Shops to Thanksgiving dinning, explore all there is at Plimoth Patuxet Museums.

Presenting the Story of Two Cultures

Harry Hornblower’s expansive and visionary approach to the early Colonial period began with the Pilgrim Village and Mayflower II, then led to the creation of a Native Studies program in the early seventies.