Christmas at Lebanon's Stoy Mansion

"'Early Americans thought of Christmas trees as an oddity,' she said."

"'The first record of one being on display is in the 1830s by the German settlers of Pennsylvania,' she said. 'The Pennsylvania German settlements had community trees as early as 1747. But as late as the 1840s, Christmas trees were still seen as pagan symbols and not accepted by most Americans.'"

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