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.
History lovers know where to go when they want a huge helping of the past: Virginia's Historic Triangle. Coincidentally, that's the same place art lovers should also be headed. Surprised? Don't be.