Casey L. Higgins is a writer, editor, content consultant, and social media strategist working in the realms of travel and small business. She's also a mom and wife living in and loving the mountains and valleys of Virginia.
Who hosted the first Thanksgiving? Was it Plymouth Plantation in Plymouth, Massachusetts as we were always told in school? Or was it Berkeley Hundred (Berkeley Plantation) along the James River in Virginia?
South of Harrisonburg, Virginia is the Lincoln Homestead, the birthplace of Abraham Lincoln's father. Within the adjacent Lincoln family cemetery are five generations of Lincolns and two slaves at rest.