Fort Plain Museum Presents: The Fort Stanwix Flag Legend No More

Cost is $5 Nom-members/FREE for Members
 
The Museum is located at 389 Canal Street, Fort Plain, NY 13339
 
On August 3 1777 the Officers of the Garrison of Fort Stanwix made a “Continental Flag”. This talk will trace the story, and the asserting that the flag was a Stars and Stripes Flag which followed the Congressional Flag Resolution of June 14th, 1777, and was in fact the place where the official flag of the United States first flew in Battle.
 
Since 1927 there were question with this story and it had been relegated by Historians to the status of “Legend” (a true store but the facts messed up)
 
Joseph Robertaccio, with a lot of patience, and a lot of luck, was able to trace the story, and find contemporary illustrations of the flag in the Clinton Sullivan Campaign. The raise of the Internet and the development of online repositories has allowed Robertaccio to use techniques born in code breaking to examine the meaning of the phrase “Continental Flag” in a way that no previous historian was able to use.
 
Beyond this, his work took him into the lore of the origins of the Flag of the United States, and it appears the many of the Legends of the Stars and Stripes are true……
 
Come join us on a wild ride through history with a touch of archeological analysis, and the discovery of a new, forgotten eyewitness source to the events of August 3, 1777.....
 
Thank you for Supporting the Fort Plain Museum & Historical Park, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization.
 
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