Visitors unfold the 30 x 42-foot 1814 replica garrison flag under the direction of Ranger Lynn McFarland, after the raising of a smaller 17 x 25-foot storm flag over Fort McHenry. Ruby Jason, 4 ...

The actual flag raised over Fort McHenry by the dawn’s early light on Sept. 14 enjoys a place of honor today at the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.

How the flag that flew proudly over Fort McHenry in September 1814 made its way to the Smithsonian. A 1914 photo of the Star-Spangled Banner undergoing conservation in the Smithsonian Castle ...

Flag Day Commemorated At Fort McHenry June 14, 2012 / 11:33 PM / CBS Baltimore BALTIMORE (WJZ)-- It wasn't just a celebration of the bicentennial on Thursday.

Restoration of Fort McHenry flag ... and a half — raise their voices in tribute to the banner that Francis Scott Key saw "by the dawn's early light" over the ragged ramparts of Fort McHenry ...

"It's like the flag is speaking to you in a sense," says a Fort McHenry park ranger. The sound doesn't change over time, making it the same flapping noise American soldiers heard in 1814 when the ...

Baltimore went a little War-of-1812-crazy last year, when some 1.5 million people crowded into the Inner Harbor to celebrate the bicentennial of the last time Great Britain invaded the U.S. And thi… ...

On loan from the national Sept. 11 Memorial and Museum, the flag was salvaged from the ruins of the World Trade Center. It was torn, in tatters, and then, American citizens stitched it back ...

SHANNON: Alright, so you raised the flag over Fort McHenry, not everybody gets to do that. Fort McHenry was built in 1802, it is a 43-acre park situated just inside the city.

And on Flag Day, June 14, this year, three red threads from the historic Fort McHenry flag were sewn into the “National 9/11” flag, a tattered remnant of an even more terrible attack on the ...

Tall ships and the Blue Angels will be in town, and the events will crescendo on Sept. 13 with two star-studded patriotic concerts and a massive fireworks display over Fort McHenry and Baltimore's ...