The Quiz: Where was the first U.S. Labor Day celebrated?
Pittsburgh
Detroit
Chicago
New York City
The very first Labor Day in the United States was held on a Tuesday, September 5, 1882, in New York City. The event was marked with a picnic, a concert, and speeches. An estimated 10,000 workers took unpaid time off to march from City Hall to Union Square. The idea of celebrating American labor spread and by 1887, Oregon, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, and Colorado made Labor Day a state holiday. Beginning in 1894, President Grover Cleveland designated the first Monday of September to be “National Labor Day.”
The correct answer to this quiz is New York City.