The Daughters or the American Revolution and the Sons of the American Revolution held a flag raising ceremony on Thursday, ...

The Betsy Ross flag was an early design of the U.S. flag.It featured 13 stars, instead of the 50 seen in the current version of the flag, along with the white and red stripes.

The morning was breezy and the sun shining as I drove into Humble on my first day on the ...

Betsy Ross may also have met Washington while worshiping at Christ Church after she was “read out” of her Quaker meetinghouse in part because of her support for the war.

Celebrating Flag Day and the US Army's 247th birthday. The U.S. Army Drill Team performs on FOX Square and 'Fox & Friends' hosts cut cake in celebration of Flag Day and the Army's 247th birthday.

Elizabeth Griscom Ross, better known to us as Betsy Ross, lived in Philadelphia. She was an upholsterer by trade, which in the 1700s included all kinds of sewing tasks, including making flags.

Did you know that the American flag has changed many times since Betsy Ross' first rendition? Betsy Ross will always be known as the first flag trailblazer! CC BY History101, Evolution of the ...

Digital Brief: July 4, 2023 (AM) 02:35 In the bedroom of the Betsy Ross House, a reconstruction of where the upholsterer worked on her most famous commission, a long flag with a circle of 13 stars ...

Flag Day was founded by Bernard Cigrand. We don't really know who made the first American flag. There have been 27 versions of the U.S. flag. Flag Day, observed annually on June 14, celebrates the ...

Our Founding Fathers were not thinking about flags. There were many different ones throughout the colonies. One flag, however, developed a following. Betsy Ross, whether she designed it or simply ...

The first, local Flag Day observances came after the Civil War and eventually a federal law designated June 14 as Flag Day in 1949, under World War I combat veteran Harry Truman.

Betsy Ross had 3 husbands, and other flag facts. Jun 14, 2012, 7:34 AM. Share . BY KTAR NEWSROOM. KTAR.com (AP) – Thursday is Flag Day, marking the date in 1777 when Congress adopted the Stars ...