Catamount Hill Schoolhouse Flag-Raising Bicentennial

Join us as we celebrate the 200th anniversary of the first raising of an American flag over a schoolhouse.

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"The First Flag Raising at an American Public School 1812"

Painting by Frank E. Schoonover
Painted in 1940 and published in the 1941 du Pont Company Calendar (June).
Reproduced here with permission.

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Stone marker commemorating spot where an American flag was first raised over a school. This is located on Catamount Hill in Colrain, Massachusetts

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Mass Humanities
Grants from the Leyden, Rowe, and Charlemont/Hawley Cultural Councils, local agencies which are supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.