Tinsley Hall

Historical marker location:

200 Overlook Drive, Pittston, Pennsylvania

( Marker is on Overlook Drive, on the left when traveling west.)

Nurses Residence.

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.