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America’s first St. Patrick’s Day celebration was in 1600 in the Spanish colony of present-day St. Augustine, Florida.

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Saint Patrick died on March 17, 461, which later became the day we celebrate him and the Irish. America’s first St. Patrick’s Day celebration was in 1600 in the Spanish colony of present ...