December 22, 2014 November 21, 2014 / By Charity Boughner / Did You Know • Holiday/ Christmas • Christmas tree • feather tree • Germany/ 0 Comments Did You Know… Germany made the first artificial Christmas trees. They were made of goose feathers and dyed green.
December 22, 2014 December 22, 2014 / By Charity Boughner / Did You Know • Holiday/ Christmas • Christmas tree • feather tree • Germany/ 0 Comments Did You Know… Germany made the first artificial Christmas trees. They were made of goose feathers and dyed green.
December 3, 2014 November 3, 2014 / By Charity Boughner / Did You Know • Holiday/ Christmas • Christmas tree • holiday/ 0 Comments Did You Know: Christmas Tree Facts Christmas Tree History The use of evergreen trees to celebrate the winter season occurred before the birth of Christ. The first decorated Christmas was in Riga, Latvia in 1510. The first printed reference to Christmas trees appeared in Germany in 1531. Christmas trees have been sold commercially in the United states since about 1850. The first Christmas tree retail lot in the United States was started in 1851 in New York by Mark Carr. In 1900, large stores started to erect big illuminated Christmas trees. Read More
December 3, 2014 December 3, 2014 / By Charity Boughner / Did You Know • Holiday/ Christmas • Christmas tree • holiday/ 0 Comments Did You Know: Christmas Tree Facts Christmas Tree History The use of evergreen trees to celebrate the winter season occurred before the birth of Christ. The first decorated Christmas was in Riga, Latvia in 1510. The first printed reference to Christmas trees appeared in Germany in 1531. Christmas trees have been sold commercially in the United states since about 1850. The first Christmas tree retail lot in the United States was started in 1851 in New York by Mark Carr. In 1900, large stores started to erect big illuminated Christmas trees. Read More