A free outdoor interpretive program will be held today, Sunday and Monday at 8:30 p.m. on the courthouse steps across from ...

The black text still read "May 20th, 1775" on top and switched to "April ... Independence movement as one of the original colonies. The flag is as much a cultural phenomenon today as it is ...

On December 3, 1775, the flag of the 13 original Colonies is raised for the first time. Navy lieutenant John Paul Jones hoists the Continental Colors, also called the Grand Union Flag, aboard the ...

1775 — in which he reported on the events he witnessed with his own eyes in Lexington and Concord. These were some of the most important details, from the colonial perspective, of the British ...