print email comment close The First Thanksgiving Was Celebrated in Virginia URL: http://www.virginia.org/site/features.asp?FeatureID=50 Description: This site describes how the "First Official thanksgiving in America" was held by English colonists at Berkeley Plantation in Virginia on December 4, 1619, "one year and 17 days prior to the landing of the Pilgrims in Massachusetts!" From Virginia is for Lovers, the tourism website of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Publisher: Virginia Tourism Corporation LII Database Information: Record 22897 created by Maria Brandt on 11/13/2006 Last modification on 11/13/2006 Published: 11/15/2006   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/22897