NY Naval Ensign Flag field guide old and new

old and new

but apparently the waves were pumping

word of the Declaration of Independence reached Huntington

in some small boat shed on the North Fork

one at a time

NY Naval Ensign Flag field guide old and newIn 1775, as the Revolution took hold, New Yorkers hauled down the British flag and raised a white flag with a single black beaver at its center; flown from the armed ships of New York as a break from the Crown. The beaver traced back to the Dutch settlers of New Netherland, a symbol of the fur trade that built the colony into a city. No documented illustration of the original has ever been found, but the beaver never left. It's still the official