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The Next Page: Sold! Buffalo Valley hosts the world s largest annual Christmas tree auction
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Santa Claus certainly holds the record for delivering Christmas presents, but Neil and Ben Courtney at the Buffalo Valley Produce Auction, hands down, hold the record for the sale of Christmas trees with some 50,000 trees sold to hundreds of buyers at the Mifflinburg, Pa., site each fall.
Christmas trees first became a part of U.S. yuletide celebrations in Pennsylvania German settlements in the mid-1700s. Their history can be traced back centuries worldwide to ceremonies of ancient peoples, but it wasn’t until almost 1800 that, due to the arrival of ornaments from Europe, Christmas trees became popular. ....

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