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Flag of the Month
Adopted on June 14, 1777, our first Stars and Stripes contained thirteen stripes, alternating red and
white, and thirteen white stars on a field of blue. The stars were arranged in various ways, including
the design of the famous Bennington banner (shown here), carried on August 16, 1777 at the Battle of
Bennington, just over the Vermont border in new York State. Many authorities believe that this banner
is the oldest known version of the Stars and Stripes.
This flag was the first to lead American armed forces on land.
The most common variations of the star pattern were a circle of twelve stars with one star in the center
or 5 rows of three and two stars alternating. The form bearing 13 stars in a circle was very rarely
used at the time. It has become well known largely because artists of the 19th century used it on their paintings.
The states represented by the 13 stars and 13 stripes were the original colonies: Connecticut, Delaware,
Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania,
Rhode Island, South Carolina, and Virginia.
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awards will be: $500 first prize, $300 second prize, and $200 third prize.
2007-08 information is now
available for the Knight Essay Contest
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February 2008 newsletter
The Southern California Society, a branch of the California Society was organized on Wednesday, July 4, 1894, at San Diego, CA. This was the result of a movement begun in the State Society as early as 1892. The parent Society felt that the size of the state required local branches to fulfill the purposes of the organization.
On July 4, 1904, Mr. Daniel Cleveland, of San Diego, called together the Sons of Revolutionary ancestors, residing in San Diego to organize the local society. A resolution was adopted that those present associate themselves in a branch organization to be known as the Southern California Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. Membership would be open to Revolutionary period descendents residing in the counties of San Diego, Riverside, San Bernadino, Los Angeles, Orange, Ventura, Kern, Santa Barbara, and San Luis Obispo. A Constitution and By-laws were adopted on August 2, 1894.
The Society took an active interest in securing patriotic instruction in the public schools of San Diego County, the observance of Flag Day, and in having the national flag raised over the schoolhouses of San Diego. The Society was actively engaged in locating and marking sites of historic interest in San Diego County and in securing historical data relating to Southern California.
The San Diego Chapter, No. 2 of the California Society was organized on June 13, 1910 with about twenty members.
San Diego contacts:
President: Mike Howard - mjhow@cox.net
Meetings: 9 a.m. on the 3rd Saturday of every month (exceptions may include June, July, and December) at the Ramada Inn, 5550 Kearny Mesa Rd., San Diego.
Secretary: Philip Hinshaw - (philiphinshaw@cox.net)
Treasurer: Ernest Mc Cullough - (epmam@cox.net)
Registrar: Edward L. Rudisill - (tedrudisill@sbcglobal.net)
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