Record #:

6194

Author(s):

Tyrrell, Anne M.

Abstract:

One of the nation's largest flag collections, which contains over 320 items dating from the American Revolution to the present, is housed in Raleigh in the North Carolina Museum of History. The oldest flag dates from 1781 and is thought to have been carried at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse.

Source:

Tar Heel Junior Historian (NoCar F 251 T3x), Vol. 20 Issue 2, Winter 1981, p18-20, il

Subject(s):

North Carolina Museum of History (Whiteville); State flags--North Carolina