William V. McGalliard planted America's first Christmas tree farm in White Horse, New Jersey, in 1901. He helped fuel the nation's 20th-century surge in having Christmas trees at home.
"He took a pretty big gamble, yet he showed people you could successfully grow trees on lands where you couldn’t grow traditional crops," National Christmas Tree Association spokesperson Jill Sidebottom told Fox News Digital.
"The first recorded display of a decorated Christmas Tree was in 1510, in Riga, Latvia," the National Christmas Tree Association reports on its website. A field of Christmas trees on a farm in Pennsylvania. The Keystone State ranks no. 4 nationally among Christmas tree-farming states. William and Mary McGalliard, prominent residents of White Horse, New Jersey, credited with planting America's first Christmas tree farm, celebrated their 50th anniversary in 1932. They had six children.
W. V. McGalliard lived in this Hamilton Township homestead for many years, planting America's first Christmas tree farm here in 1901. Christmas tree farmers live differently; they're patient even by the standards of people who work the Earth. They can wait a decade to reap the rewards of their toil in the soil.
Washington crossing the Delaware, near Trenton, New Jersey, Christmas 1776. George Washington , first president of the United States; from English and Scottish history, published 1882. "There had been first families with Christmas trees in the White House, but it was not the modern tradition we know today" when the Roosevelts arrived, Matthew Costello, senior historian at the White House Historical Association, told Fox News Digital.
Franklin Pierce is rumored to have put up the first White House Christmas tree in 1853. Grover Cleveland and Ulysses S. Grant are also suspected of enjoying White House Christmas trees. "The boys decorated the tree in secret and even enlisted the help of an electrician on staff at the White House to help decorate it with lights," the National Catholic Register reports.
Lt. Col. Archibald Roosevelt became an American military hero, serving in both World War I and World War II. He received multiple honors for heroism while being wounded in both wars.Archibald Roosevelt, left, son of Theodore Roosevelt and a veteran of World War I, and Carl E. Webber of Seattle, Washington, saunter along in New Guinea in World War II.
McGalliard's legacy lives on in what’s now a thriving American tree farming industry that raises boughs from coast to coast.
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