Delaware, Dec. 7, 1787. Pennsylvania, Dec. 12, 1787. New Jersey, Dec. 18, 1787. Georgia, Jan. 2, 1788. Connecticut, Jan. 9, 1788. Massachusetts, Feb. 6, 1788. Maryland, April 28, 1788. South Carolina, May 23, 1788. New Hampshire, June 21, 1788. Virginia, June 25, 1788. New York, July 26, 1788. North Carolina, Nov. 21, 1789. Rhode Island, May 29, 1790. Vermont, March 4, 1791. Kentucky, June 1, 1792. Tennessee, June 1, 1796. Ohio, Feb. 19, 1803. Louisiana, April 30, 1812. Indiana, Dec. 11, 1816. Mississippi, Dec. 10, 1817. Illinois, Dec. 3, 1818. Alabama, Dec. 14, 1819. Maine, March 15, 1820. Missouri, Aug. 10, 1821. Arkansas, June 15, 1836. Michigan, Jan. 26, 1837. Florida, March 3, 1845. Texas, Sept. 29, 1845. Iowa, Dec. 28, 1846. Wisconsin, May 29, 1848. California, Sept. 9, 1850. Minnesota, May 11, 1858. Oregon, Feb. 14, 1859. Kansas, Jan. 29, 1861. West Virginia, June 19, 1863. Nevada, Oct. 31, 1864. Nebraska, March 1, 1867. Colorado, Aug. 1, 1876. North Dakota and South Dakota, Nov. 2, 1889. Montana, Nov. 8, 1889. Washington, Nov. 11, 1889. Idaho, July 3, 1890. Wyoming, July 10, 1890. Utah, 1894. DATES OF ORGANIZATION. Arizona, Feb. 24, 1863. Alaska, July 27, 1868. Indian Territory, June 30, 1834. Oklahoma, April 22, 1889. District of Columbia. March 3, 1791. New Mexico, Sept. 9, 1850. Commodore Perry carried our flag in 1854 into the harbors of Japan, and the first commercial treaty with that nation was made by and with the United States. [Illustration: GENERAL WASHINGTON HON GEORGE ROSS ROBERT MORRIS BETSY ROSS COPYRIGHTED 1883 BIRTH OF OUR NATION’S FLAG. THE FIRST AMERICAN FLAG ACCEPTED by COMMITTEE and ADOPTED by Resolution of Congress JUNE 14th, 1777, as the National Standard, was made by BETSEY ROSS in 1776, at 239 Arch Street, Philadelphia, in the room represented in this picture. The Committee ROBERT MORRIS and Hon. George ROSS, accompanied by GENERAL GEORGE WASHINGTON, called upon this Celebrated Woman, and, together with her suggestions, produced our beautiful EMBLEM OF LIBERTY]. SAVE THE OLD FLAG HOUSE. THE HOME OF BETSY ROSS. The objects of the American Flag House and Betsy Ross Memorial Association are to purchase and preserve the historic building, situated at No. 239 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pa., in which the first flag of the United States of America was made by Betsy Ross and subsequently adopted by Congress, June 14th, 1777, and to erect a national memorial in honor of this illustrious woman.