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

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 ...

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 ...

Flagmaker Betsy Ross is ... to prepare a flag, and asked her if she thought she could make one." Three men entered her shop in May or June 1776, according to the Ross family's later flag origin ...

MOULTRIE — Betsy Ross, who was commissioned ... DAR will also conduct a Flag Retirement Ceremony. According to the U.S. Flag Code, the proper way to retire worn and tattered flags is by flame.

Coffey’s home is decorated in Old Glory, from a 1777 Betsy Ross flag to mailboxes. Her father served in the U.S. Army in Germany in the 1940s. “It’s just a symbol of the U.S. and we should ...

“At 1776, our goal is to bring patriotism to the ... so far are the streets — Constitution Lane, Paul Revere Drive, Betsy Ross Drive, Old Glory Drive and Gadsden Drive. But buyers don ...

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 ...