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

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with some questioning whether Ross created the flag. Legend has it that the first American flag was made by Betsy Ross, an upholsterer from Philadelphia. The U.S. Department of the Interior ...

An Israeli flag created by a woman dubbed the “Betsy Ross of Israel” has been donated to Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in honor of Israel’s 70th anniversary. Rebecca Affachiner, an ...

“Every historian who’s looked into it has found no credible evidence that Betsy Ross made the first American flag, or helped design it, or even that there was a flag committee,” says ...

Seamstress Betsy Ross is the subject of flag folklore, but written evidence points to Francis Hopkinson as the true American flag designer.

“Resolved: that the flag of the United States be made of thirteen stripes ... abc27 newsletters here Elizabeth Griscom Ross, better known to us as Betsy Ross, lived in Philadelphia.

1. Betsy Ross made the first American flag. The Betsy Ross story is the most tenacious piece of fiction involving the flag. There simply is no credible historical evidence — letters, diaries ...

We don't really know who made the first American flag ... to our thoughtful love of America" each year. Did Betsy Ross make the first flag? Betsy Ross, the famed Philadelphia seamstress, is ...

Betsy Ross interpreters, like Nina Gold ... “We do have a receipt for the second flag that she made for Washington, from about a year later in 1777, and we know from oral history that she contributed ...

The flag raising event was held at the Betsy Ross House Courtyard in Old City this morning at ... and helped gift the city its first Lombardi Trophy, has made a comeback as the Philadelphia Eagles ...