D.C. It’s known as the Great Garrison Flag. The fort’s star-spangled banner measured 42 feet by 30 feet and had 15 stars and 15 stripes. It was the custom in the very early days of the nation ...

“The Star-Spangled Banner” wasn’t actually adopted as ... Clague: One interesting thing is the flag that Key’s looking at – this flag had 15 stripes and 15 stars. O’er the ramparts ...

SAVE OUR HISTORY: THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER. Tonight at 8 ... poem called “The Defense of Fort McHenry,” and the 15-star flag that inspired it. That may sound obscure, even for the History ...

The Star-Spangled Banner arrived at the Smithsonian Institution in 1907. National Museum of American History The flag’s history starts not with Key, but rather a year earlier, with Major George ...

Pat and Mike Korb, of Drums, recently donated a 15-star "star spangled banner" flag to the Wilkes Barre Preservation Society's Zebulon Butler House Museum. "We thank the Korbs for graciously ...

This 15-star flag was the inspiration for Francis Scott ... s name of the closing lines of the first stanza – Star Spangled Banner – and set to the tune “To Anacreon in Heaven,” later ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of ...

June 13 (UPI) --Today is Flag Day, and while Americans typically don't get the day off, it's still a holiday worth celebrating. According to the Department of Veterans Affairs, Flag Day marks the ...

Tony Brooks, left, Director of the Wilkes-Barre Preservation Society and Curator of the Museum, recently accepted a 15-star ‘star spangled banner’ flag, donated by Pat and Mike Korb ...

Key saw it and wrote a poem that became the national anthem. The actual flag Key saw — the Star-Spangled Banner — is now housed in a climate-controlled, light-protected chamber at the ...