Chapin Arch

Historical marker location:

Johnstown, Pennsylvania

( Marker is on Menoher Boulevard (Pennsylvania Route 271) 0.2 miles south of Everhart Street, on the left when traveling south.)

1910.

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.