Gettysburg Campaign

Historical marker location:

4147 Church View Rd, South Woodbury Township, Pennsylvania

( Marker is on Upper Snake Spring Road (Pennsylvania Route 1005), on the right when traveling south.)

Marker installed: 1963

The first recorded U.S. flag-raising on foreign soil occurred in 1777, when the Stars and Stripes were flown during a naval battle off the coast of Quiberon Bay, France, commanded by Pennsylvania native John Paul Jones.