Electricians That Work For You. ALLSTAR Electric is a Family owned and operated Full Service Residential and Commercial Electric Company. Serving St. Augustine, Jacksonville, Palm Coast and surrounding counties since 1990. We are state certified, bonded, and insured, providing 24 hour emergency services.
200th Anniversary of the Star-Spangled Banner. 2014 marks the 200th anniversary of our nationâs beloved national anthem, âThe Star-Spangled Banner.â In September 1814, after a 25-hour long battle, U.S. soldiers at Baltimoreâs Fort McHenry raised in victory a 42-foot American flag sewn by Mary Pickersgill.
Here's a refresher course on the history of the âStar-Spangled Banner.â. The banner. The poet Francis Scott Key described a giant flag that flew over Fort McHenry in Baltimore. National Park Ranger Jim Bailey points to a replica of that flag that's 30 feet tall and 42 feet wide. Each of the 15 stripes is 2 feet in width, or as Francis Scott Key would write, 'very broad,' and each of the stars measure two feet from point to point, or as Key would write, 'very bright'. So the broad stripes and bright stars of the 'Star-Spangled Banner' are not a poetic exaggeration of Key.