Guest: Thanksgiving began in St. Augustine

400-Pedro-Menendez-CHAD-LIGGuest: Thanksgiving began in St. Augustine

By: Raphael Cosme
Special to HISTORIC CITY NEWS

For more than 300 years Americans have been celebrating Thanksgiving Day based on historical accounts of 1621 at Plymouth Rock Plantation, where the Pilgrims who boarded the Mayflower came to the New World to escape religious persecution in England. The settlers had no idea how to survive in such new territory.