Trimble's Ford

Historical marker location:

1574 Camp Linden Rd, West Bradford Township, Pennsylvania

( Marker is on Camp Linden Road, on the right when traveling east.)

Marker installed: 1915

Howe & Cornwallis crossed the Brandywine here in 1777.

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.