Dinwiddie County Public Schools wishes our students, parents, staff, and community a special time at Thanksgiving for all the things for which we are grateful — one of which is YOU!

All over the nation people will gather to celebrate the 399th Thanksgiving meal with family and/or friends. The Pilgrims in the fall of 1621 (early settlers of Plymouth Colony) held a three-day feast to celebrate a bountiful harvest.  Many regard this event as the nation’s first Thanksgiving.  President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed the last Thursday of November as a national day of thanksgiving on October 3, 1863.   To learn more about this holiday:

• How many colonists were there in 1620
• The legacy of the national holiday

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