Historical Marker
Shipley-Shuttleworth House
Historical marker location:
946 Spaight Street, Madison, Wisconsin
( Marker is on Spaight Street, 0.1 miles west of South Brearly Street, on the left when traveling east.)
Marker installed: 1976
1855.
The first American flag to be flown in a foreign battle was carried by Wisconsin troops during the Battle of Chapultepec in the Mexican-American War in 1847.