Christmas tree origin in North America.
Christmas tree origin in North America. First published image of a Christmas tree, frontispiece to Hermann Bokum's 1836 The Stranger's Gift A Christmas tree from 1951, in a home in New York state The Queen's Christmas tree at Windsor Castle published in The Illustrated London News, 1848 The tradition was introduced to North America in the winter of 1781 by Hessian soldiers stationed in the Province of Québec (1763–1791) to garrison the colony against American attack. General Friedrich Adolf Riedesel and his wife, the Baroness von Riedesel, held a Christmas party for the officers at Sorel, Quebec, delighting their guests with a fir tree decorated with candles and fruits. The Christmas tree became very common in the United States of America in the early nineteenth century. The first image of a Christmas tree was published in 1836 as the frontispiece to The Stranger's Gift by Hermann Bokum. The first mention of the Christmas tree in American literature was in a sto...
