Richard L. Etchberger

Historical marker location:

Hamburg, Pennsylvania

( Memorial is on State Street (Old U.S. Highway 22) west of North 2nd Street, on the right when traveling west.)

(Posthumous).

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.