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5 Minutes in Church History with Stephen Nichols

174. Fort Caroline

5 Minutes in Church History with Stephen Nichols

Ligonier Ministries

Christianity, History, Religion & Spirituality

4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2022

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Contrary to popular belief, the first Thanksgiving likely did not take place in New England. Today on our journey back through the archives, Dr. Stephen Nichols takes us further south.

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0:00.0

Well, last week was our American Thanksgiving, but it's such a great holiday.

0:05.5

Why not celebrate it again?

0:07.4

So we found another archival episode for you on Thanksgiving.

0:11.3

We're going to play that for you now.

0:13.7

And as we said last week, in the spirit of Thanksgiving, thanks so much for joining us

0:18.8

for these episodes of Five Minutes in Church History.

0:23.3

Welcome back to another episode of Five Minutes in Church History.

0:26.7

On this episode, we'll be talking about Fort Caroline.

0:30.7

Now I need to distinguish, this is not sweet Caroline.

0:34.0

Some of you might know what that is.

0:35.8

Know this is Fort Caroline.

0:38.2

And this was a fort that was established along the St. John's River in Florida in 1564.

0:45.7

Now this is a bit of a trick question that I have for you.

0:48.6

When was the first Thanksgiving on American soil?

0:53.1

You might be tempted to think of New England after all.

0:56.8

Thanksgiving traditions all point us back to New England.

1:01.0

But you actually might be wrong the first Thanksgiving service.

1:06.3

Likely occurred or Thanksgiving day, the first Thanksgiving day likely occurred on June

1:11.9

30th, 1564 at Fort Caroline, which is near the modern day city of Jacksonville in Florida.

1:21.3

This was a group of French Huguenots.

1:24.0

In 1562, their leader had made an exploratory trip to the coast of Florida and found this delightful

1:30.4

place at the St. John's River, a place for settlement.

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