UpdatedThu, Dec 24, 2020 at 9:04 am ET
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The site of the first decorated Christmas tree in the nation happens to be in Connecticut. (Tim Jensen/Patch)
WINDSOR LOCKS, CT The latest trek to a Hidden Gem takes us to what is, by all accounts, the site of the first decorated Christmas tree in the nation that happens to be in Connecticut.
OK, we didn t even have a nation yet. The origin dates back to 1777 and the surrender of the British army during the American Revolution, shortly after the loss at Saratoga in the fall. As legend has it (along with the Windsor Locks Historical Society), a group of Hessian soldiers, now POWs, were making their way to a camp near Boston.