The first US flag was raised at Middlebrook

The first US flag was raised at Middlebrook, New Jersey in 1777, under the Gadsden or Hopkins flag. It featured a rattlesnake and the words “Don’t tread on me.” Commodore Hopkins and his sailors and marines hoisted this flag from the USS Alfred and then the gadsden flag. The design of the US national flag … Read moreThe first US flag was raised at Middlebrook