John A. Shulze

Historical marker location:

4405 Conrad Weiser Pkwy, Marion Township, Pennsylvania

( Marker is at the intersection of Benjamin Franklin Parkway (U.S. 422) and Main Street, on the right when traveling east on Benjamin Franklin Parkway.)

Marker installed: 1951

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.