Historical Marker
Conestoga Navigation Company
Historical marker location:
1370 New Danville Pike, Lancaster Township, Pennsylvania
( Marker is on New Danville Pike, 0.3 miles south of 2nd Lock Road, on the left when traveling south.)
Marker installed: 2001
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.