Every year on Feb. 2, many towns across America celebrate Groundhog Day, where a weather-predicting groundhog determines if there will be six more weeks of winter or if there will be an early ...

The first official Groundhog Day happened on February 2, 1887, in the very town it is celebrated in today. The holiday made a permanent home at Gobbler’s Knob the following year. According to ...

In 1886, Groundhog Day was acknowledged for the first time in Punxsutawney by a local newspaper, Weathers Wags, according to the club. In 1887, the first official pilgrimage to see Phil on Gobbler ...

The first Groundhog Day was celebrated on Feb. 2, 1887, at Gobbler’s Knob in Punxsutawney. The holiday has roots in a few different religions, but it took a similar message from each of them.

"Groundhog Day was really off to the races at that point ... compared to 21 for an early spring since his prognostications were recorded in 1887 (there are no records for 10 years).

2) Punxsutawney’s first Groundhog Day in Gobbler’s Knob dates back to February 2, 1887, when the town’s newspaper editor Clymer Freas informed his readers: “Today is groundhog day and up ...

Punxsutawney Phil made another key weather prediction on Groundhog Day, Feb. 2 -- the first year ... will arrive early dates back to Feb. 2, 1887, in Punxsutawney, and is based on a Pennsylvania ...

Groundhog Day is arriving quickly and everyone is waiting ... they adopted the New World species to fit the lore." In 1887, Punxsutawney was declared "to be the weather capital of the world ...

RELATED: Groundhog Day: What to know about the American tradition ... and has done so each year since 1887. This year marks the 139th time the event has occurred, according to the Pennsylvania ...

As spring approaches, the time draws near for everyone’s beloved woodchuck to predict whether there’ll be six more weeks of ...