Therefore, there is no original Betsy Ross flag that exists, but a replica can be found at the Betsy Ross House in Philadelphia, according to the National Flag Foundation. Image 1 of 3 next ...

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.

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 ...

The Betsy Ross flag may just be a tall tale. But according to Ross family legend, it was a year earlier when the Founding Fathers walked into Ross' home, where she sat sewing.

The reverence for Old Glory that inspired Flag Day arose decades after Betsy Ross sewed her first The U.S. Capitol is seen past American flags on the National Mall, Friday, June 6, 2025, on the ...

Betsy Ross is credited with creating the first Stars & Stripes American flag. Her real contributions to the American Revolution are perhaps much more dramatic than the flagmaking legend.

Philadelphia Betsy Ross impersonator Carol Spacht traded in her usual red, white, and blue for Eagles green as she raised the Eagles flag to kick off Super Bowl week. The flag raising event was held ...

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 ...

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.