The story that Ross sewed (and essentially designed) the "first American flag" was first related nearly a century after the ...

Resolved: that the flag of the United States be made of thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen ...

In the bedroom of the Betsy ... flag with a circle of 13 stars hangs over a Chippendale side chair and extends across the floor. Over the weeks in 1776 needed to complete the project, Ross would ...

Betsy Ross interpreters, like Nina Gold ... Historians have backed away from the claim that Ross sewed the first American flag in 1776 at her upholstery shop on Arch Street, for lack of concrete ...

DID Betsy Ross make and design the first American flag? View Full Article in Timesmachine » Advertisement ...

Flagmaker Betsy Ross is embraced as one of the most popular figures of the American Revolution ... her shop in May or June 1776, according to the Ross family's later flag origin story.

Other nations, for the most part, reserve the flying of their national colors for government buildings and ceremonial events ...

The Betsy Ross House in Philadelphia recently uncovered new evidence supporting the claim that a seamstress sewed the first Stars and Stripes national flag in 1776 at her upholstery shop on Arch ...

The first, local Flag Day observances came after the Civil War and eventually a federal law designated June 14 as Flag Day in ...

Now she is one of the women bringing that history to life for the many visitors of the Betsy Ross ... flag. "Family story is that she made it right before the Declaration in the spring of 1776 ...