As Mike Schuh reports, Maj. George Armistead paid for it, Francis Scott Key wrote about it, but Mary Pickersgill made what became known as The Star-Spangled Banner. The British were about to ...

Molotsky says Mary Pickersgill made the flag of 400 yards of good English wool bunting 30 feet tall and 42 feet long, which may have been the largest battle flag ever flown.

A new exhibit at the Star Spangled Banner Flag House in Baltimore shows off the most famous flag in American history and is dedicated to the woman who made it, but that woman isn't Betsy Ross.

The house where Mary Pickersgill and Grace Wisher lived and worked. It angered her so much that Lawrence, who is Black, called for Davis, who is white, to be removed from her position.

When Mary Pickersgill created the flag that inspired Francis Scott Key to write The Star-Spangled Banner, it was too large to spread out in her home, so she had to piece it together on the ...

Pickersgill was "one of those forgotten heroes of the United States," said Schenning. "And she's a fascinating woman. She was in her mid-30s when she made the 'Star-Spangled Banner' flag.

2003-07-04 04:00:00 PDT Washington-- Because Betsy Ross has the myth market cornered when it comes to making the American flag, hardly anyone has heard of Mary Pickersgill.But the immense flag ...

A few doors away is the Pickersgill house, built in 1793. It’s now a museum called the Star-Spangled Banner Flag House. Step inside and you can almost hear Mary Pickersgill and Grace walking around.

Despite popular folklore, it was Mary Pickersgill, not Betsy Ross, who made the star-spangled banner flag that inspired Francis Scott Key's words, according to the Smithsonian Institution.

The Mary Pickersgill Award, established in 2012, is awarded annually to honor a woman who demonstrates leadership in her community, exemplifies innovation in her chosen field, ...

The flag was just what the major ordered. It was gigantic — 42-by-30-feet — so big that the flag maker couldn’t even lay it out in her house. Each star was two feet wide! This was during the ...

Baltimore has been a beer-drinking town since flagmaker Mary Pickersgill sewed the Stars and Stripes on the floor of a local brewery in 1812. Since the first German immigrants set up elaborate ...