Ditto, being of maternal Jamestown descent.
My understanding from an Emory University history professor is that this was a post War Between the States propaganda campaign to erase Virginia’s (and the South in general) claim of being the home of the first permanent European settlement (aka the birthplace of the US).
The “pilgrims” prior to the War Between the States were then known as “separatists”, not piligrims.
Re-writing history is as old as man’s 6,000 years of recorded history.
Indeed, what I suspect. Always trying to emphasize yankees.
Re re-writing history, Hatshepsut was the first female pharaoh of Egypt ca 1500 BC. Her stepson Tuthmoses III totally erased all of her history and claimed her works as his own. He did such a good job that she remained unknown until the early 1800s!