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She didn't make the flag. This is a story her grandson made up in 1870. Congress gives credit to Francis Hopkinson

who designed the flag. The first flag was made for the navy in 1776 and it was a basic British flag with stripes. The second flag had stars where the British flag had a cross.


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Mary Pickersgill

was contracted to sew two flags for Fort McHenry

in 1813. The first flag, which became the Star Spangled Banner, was a garrison flag. The second one was used for foul weather.

Read more at the National Museum of American History


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