George Washington himself ... Three men entered her shop in May or June 1776, according to the Ross family's later flag origin story. "She knew the handsome form and features of the dignified ...

A bedding project for Mount Vernon is based on documents that tie George Washington to Betsy Ross ... have backed away from the claim that Ross sewed the first American flag in 1776 at her upholstery ...

Yet this same flag of thirteen stars and thirteen stripes ... honest rag paper on which Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, and the Continental Congress wrote their documents, and Paine penned ...

“(We’re) not asking to remove George Washington from the history of Washington state,” Peterson said. “This is more about the aesthetics of the flag and what the flag could represent to ...

Washington's current flag, featuring a green field and a portrait of George Washington, was officially adopted in 1923. That design was then updated in 1967. State law requires that the flag be of ...