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Most 19th-century Americans found Christmas trees an oddity. The first record of one being on display was in the 1830s by the German settlers of Pennsylvania, although trees had been a tradition in many German homes much earlier. The Pennsylvania German settlements had community trees as early as 1747.
But the tradition of secular ornaments goes back a long way. The earliest record of a Chrismas tree in the White House is 1889, when President Benjamin Harrison âdecorated a live tree with tinsel and popcorn,â according to the White House Historical Association.