Trail Information

Historical marker location:

Farmington, Pennsylvania

( Marker is on Washington Parkway, 0.8 miles south of National Pike (U.S. 40), on the right when traveling south.)

Fort Necessity National Battlefield.

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.