Thanksgiving 2015: By the Numbers
The bird’s in the oven, the relatives are at the front door, you finally found that bag of candy corn you bought on sale last year … so it’s time to look at Thanksgiving, By the Numbers.
1621: In the fall of the year, settlers in Plymouth (in what would become Massachusetts) celebrated a three-day feast with the assistance of the Wampanoag Indian Tribe. The thanks given at that gathering provided the genesis of Thanksgiving.
1863: The year in which President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed the last Thursday in November as the official day to celebrate Thanksgiving.
24.4 million: Americans of English ancestry.
6,500: Existing members of the Wampanoag American Indian tribe in 2010.
228 million: Number of turkeys raised in the U.S. in 2015.
$24 million: The value of U.S. imports of live turkeys (all from Canada) in 2014.
98.6: Percentage of American households with a gas or electric stove.
66,286: Number of supermarkets and groceries (excluding convenience stores) in the U.S. in 2013.
841 million: Pounds of cranberries produced in the U.S. in 2015.
3 billion: Pounds of sweet potatoes produced in the U.S. in 2014.
7: Places in America have names that include the word “Cranberry.”
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This story was originally published November 25, 2015 at 1:02 PM with the headline "Thanksgiving 2015: By the Numbers."