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

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

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 ...

A bedding project for Mount Vernon is based on documents that tie George Washington to Betsy ... Ross may have, indeed, sewn the first Stars and Stripes national flag. Historians have backed away from ...

Q. An owner in our condominium building has placed two flags in his windows. One is the traditional stars and stripes (13 Stripes, 50 stars). The other is the Betsy Ross Colonial flag with 13 ...

The Betsy Ross House Courtyard in Old City was filled with Philadelphia Eagles fans eager to cheer on the Birds. Betsy Ross impersonator Carol Spacht waiting to greet the Eagles fans before putting up ...

The history of the United States flag dates back centuries, to the time of the revolution when American colonists sought to separate from the British Empire. However, for more than 245 years, the ...

The Betsy Ross flag was an early ... "But the likely apocryphal story that in June 1776 General [George] Washington consulted with Ross on the creation of a new flag, and she persuaded him to ...