A Good Start

Historical marker location:

3540 Kiptopeke Drive, Cape Charles, Virginia

( Marker is on Kiptopeke Drive (County Route 704) 1.4 miles west of Lankdorf Highway (U.S. 13).)

Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail. National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior.

The first Thanksgiving in North America was celebrated in Virginia in 1619, a year before the Pilgrims celebrated their first Thanksgiving in Massachusetts.