Which President Made Thanksgiving a National Holiday? (VIDEO)
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What began over 300 years ago as a meal between the Plymouth colonists and Wampanoag Indians has now become a celebrated tradition throughout the country.
Originally held in 1621 as a harvest feast, it was two hundred years later in 1863 that President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a national Thanksgiving Day to be held each November.