Many people believe that General George Washington visited seamstress Betsy Ross in June, 1776 to ask her to sew a stars-and-stripes flag that would become the first official flag of the new country.
Now a museum, the Betsy Ross House in Philadelphia is the house where Ross is purported to have made her famous flag.
Common Place is a site exploring early American history that calls itself "a bit friendlier than a scholarly journal, a bit more scholarly than a popular magazine."
While admitting that historians agree that there are no primary sources to support the Ross tale, the Revolutionary War Archives present the "overwhelming circumstantial evidence in support of Betsy."
USFlag.org explores the ubiquity and appeal of the Ross story.
The Betsy Ross Homepage from USHistory.org is my pick of the day for the variety of its resources.
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