Hwy. I, 0.5 mi. E of Waubeka, Ozaukee County

Here at Stony Hill School, Bernard J. Cigrand, a 19-year-old teacher, and his students held the first recognized observance of "Flag Birth Day" on June 14, 1885, with a flag ten inches high, carrying 38 stars, standing on a bottle on the teacher's desk. After thirty-one years of crusading by Dr. Cigrand, President Woodrow Wilson on June 14, 1916, proclaimed the national observance of Flag Day.

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[Source: McBride, Sarah Davis. History Just Ahead (Madison:WHS, 1999).]