Semialachee Lodge 239 members in a reenactment of the First Christmas in North America, ca. 1960

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Description:

Members of Semialachee Lodge 239 participating in a historical pageant depicting the arrival of Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto in the vicinity of modern-day Tallahassee. De Soto encamped through the winter, meaning that the expedition would have celebrated the first Christmas in what would become the United States.

Format: print photographs

Date: 1960 (circa)

Geographic Location:

Tallahassee (Fla.)

Leon County (Fla.)

Program:

Order of the Arrow

Subject:

Boy Scouts

Historical reenactments

Pageants

Discovery and exploration, Spanish

Soto, Hernando de, approximately 1500-1542

Identifier:

2019.006.033

Source: Photographic Collection (2019.006), SRAC Museum of Scouting