Who created the first American flag? What it really Betsy Ross? "According to legend, in 1776, George Washington ... at the top of the pole on Flag Day. ‘There was so much blood in the water ...

The current New Hampshire state flag features a ship called the Raleigh, built in Portsmouth in 1776. It was notable ... by a Louise Funk Fluke (the “Betsy Ross of Oklahoma”) and adopted ...

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

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

In Betsy Ross ... The flag is a physical object “that people can relate to,” said Charles Spain, director of the Flag Research Center in Houston. “If you put a flag on a pole, the wind ...