Benjamin Rush

Historical marker location:

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

( Marker is at the intersection of Keswick Road and Rayland Road on Keswick Road.)

Marker installed: 2002

(1745-1813).

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.