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Bollman Hat Company was founded by Mr. George Bollman in 1868. Bollman was a family owned business for most of its history. Bollman became an employee owned business in 1985. The company is headquartered in Adamstown, Pennsylvania, with wool scouring facilities in Texas and showrooms and sales and design offices in New York City and Sydney ...
Adamstown was initially founded on July 4, 1761, by William Addams on the site of a former village of Native Americans, and Addams named the community Addamsburry.The community was incorporated as a borough on April 2, 1850, [4] following the passage of a bill by the Pennsylvania General Assembly that was introduced by Representative Joseph Konigmacher the previous month. [5]
Meetings followed in the autumn of that year. The formal organization of the AFA was completed at a mass meeting of all the state-based Flag Committees, held at New York City Hall, February 18, 1898. [1] The AFA was a union of the Flag Committees of all the patriotic societies in the country, and to the number of about sixty flag committees.
Annin Flagmakers is an American corporation based in Roseland, New Jersey.The flagmaker was founded by Alexander Annin in 1847 and incorporated on January 10, 1910. Annin Flagmakers produces American flags, state flags and national flags of all United Nations members.
Valley Forge Flag Company employee folds recently completed U.S. flags, Spring City, Pennsylvania, July 1, 1982. By the time that the company's president, Sidney Liberman, died in 1967, the company had expanded to include operations in Baumstown, Birdsboro, Robesonia, Royersford, Spring City, and Womelsdorf, Pennsylvania. He was survived by his ...
In 1893, Elizabeth Duane Gillespie, a descendant of Benjamin Franklin and the president of the Colonial Dames of Pennsylvania, attempted to have a resolution passed requiring the American flag to be displayed on all Philadelphia's public buildings. [1] In 1937, Pennsylvania became the first state to make Flag Day a legal holiday. [17]
Elizabeth Griscom Ross (née Griscom; [1] January 1, 1752 – January 30, 1836), also known by her second and third married names, Ashburn and Claypoole, [1] was an American upholsterer who was credited by her relatives in 1870 [2] with making the second official U.S. flag, [3] accordingly known as the Betsy Ross flag.
The Birth of Pennsylvania, a portrait of William Penn (standing with document in hand), who founded the Province of Pennsylvania in 1681 as a refuge for Quakers after receiving a royal deed to it from King Charles II. The history of Pennsylvania stems back thousands of years when the first indigenous peoples occupied the area of what is now ...