President Woodrow Wilson borrowed the idea of Flag Day from a small-town Wisconsin school teacher.In 1885, Bernard Cigrand led his school in the first formal observance of the holiday.

“On June 14, 1885, Bernard J. Cigrand, an 18-year-old Waubeka native teaching at Stony Hill School, put a flag in his inkwell and assigned his students an essay about what the flag means to them ...

The National Flag Foundation said public support for Flag Day picked up steam in 1885 when a Wisconsin school teacher mobilized his students to celebrate "Flag Birthday" on June 14.

The small village of Waubeka, Wisconsin, north of Milwaukee, claims the first observance in 1885.

The first official observance of Flag Day took place at a school in Wisconsin in 1885. President Woodrow Wilson established June 14 as Flag Day in 1916, but it took an act of Congress in 1949 to ...

The woman often credited with sewing the first national US flag — at the request of George Washington himself, her descendants claimed — might have been puzzled by Saturday’s modern Flag Day.

Flag Day was first observed in 1877, and in May 1916, President Woodrow Wilson declared June 14 Flag Day. Here's what to know about the day.