Labor Day was first celebrated in the United States in 1882, dedicated to the achievements of American workers. It serves as an annual tribute to American workers’ contributions to the strength, prosperity, and well-being of the United States. The first Labor Day celebration was held on September 5, 1882 in New York City, including a parade and picnic. On June 28, 1894, Congress declared Labor Day a federal holiday designating the first Monday in September as Labor Day.
Labor Day usually still meant work for farmers as the cows still needed to be milked and if the weather was good, field work was done and this time of the year, in the past it may have been threshing oats by throwing bundles of oat stalks on a conveyor belt that fed the bundles into the thresher which separated the grain from the stalks.
Laboring on Labor Day
