Betsy Ross House

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Betsy Ross House

 

Betsy Ross House

 

 

Walk to 2nd Street and make a right, then a left onto Arch Street. Less than a block away, with flag flying proudly is the Betsy Ross House. Elizabeth Griscom Ross Ashbourn Claypoole (1752-1836) — she married three times — made the first American flag. This house, shrine to Betsy and to the American flag, was built about 1760 and thousands of persons visit it each year

 

bedroom in the Betsy Ross house

 

the basement stairway to the street

 

 

Betsy Ross grave memorialal

 

 

 

Betsy Ross Reenactor at the Independence Visitors Center

 

flag of Betsy Ross

 

fountain in the Betsy Ross house courtyard

 

 

nearby restaurant

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