The 28th Division Infantry

Historical marker location:

Harris Township, Pennsylvania

( Marker is on Boal Avenue (U.S. 322) just north of Boalsburg Pike, on the right when traveling east.)

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.