Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Show us your garden flags, 1 by claypa

claypa wrote:
Occasionally I fly this flag, The Taunton Flag. It was first flown in 1774 in Taunton, Massachusetts, probably as a protest. It is the Queen Anne flag with the words Liberty and Union added. In colonial times, most towns had a 'liberty pole', where this flag, or one with just red and white stripes was flown. This was the 'American' flag until the Betsy Ross flag, adopted on what would become Flag Day, 1776. Sometimes I wonder if the neighbors think it's English. The red diagonal cross in the Union Jack that represents Ireland's Saint Patrick was not used back then.