Yesterday's post was about the history of Christmas as a national holiday. However, some of our states had an official Christmas holiday before the 1870 federal declaration. Perhaps not surprisingly, the first three American States to declare Christmas a legal holiday were located in the South: Alabama in 1836; and Louisiana and Arkansas, both in 1838.
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
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