William Goodridge's advertisement of the public display of a Christmas tree in 1840, fairly rare for that time, has often been repeated at this time of year.
In the hope of adding a new twist, I did an internet search on Goodridge plus Christmas tree and came up with an interesting coincidence. One hundred twenty-seven years after the York, PA Christmas tree exhibit, Edward S. Goodridge of New York state received a patent for a new way of constructing artificial Christmas tree branches.
The original ad and more information on the patent are below.
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