The Reverend Thaddeus Dodd

Historical marker location:

648 Amity Ridge Rd, Amwell Township, Pennsylvania

( Marker is on Amity Ridge Road (U.S. 19) 0.1 miles south of Hillsboro Road, on the right when traveling south.)

Marker installed: 1935

1740 1793.

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.