
06/15/2025
🇺🇸 Happy Flag Day! 🇺🇸
Did you know the NSCDA helped spark the movement that led to Flag Day becoming a nationally recognized observance?
In 1893, the Pennsylvania Society of The National Society of The Colonial Dames of America, led by Elizabeth Duane Gillespie, urged citizens to display the flag on June 14—and hosted one of the earliest large-scale Flag Day rallies in Independence Square with schoolchildren waving flags and singing patriotic songs. 🎶🇺🇸
While Flag Day wasn’t officially recognized until 1949, our Dames helped lay the groundwork decades earlier, keeping patriotism and history alive.