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Williamsburg and Richmond, Virginia, in 1846. Trimmed Christmas trees were * first used in the United State's apparently during the American Revolution, when Hessian soldiers softened their homesickness with them. A historical description of Christmas at Fort Dearborn, 111., in 1804 mentions the use of a Christmas tree. ' At first, {he trimmings, if any, consisted mostly of small tufts of cotton and strings of popcorn and cran
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