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Raising of the Bear Flag Monument
Photographer: Ed Wood, Forestville, Cal. , H.S. Crocker, S.F.
Caption: Raising of the Bear Flag Monument
Additional Description: Description on postcard:
MONUMENT TO THE RAISING OF THE BEAR FLAG
Sonoma, California
This monument was erected by the Native Sons of the Golden West and the State of California to commemorate the raising of the Bear Flag on this spot June14, 1846 by the Bear Flag Party and their declaration of the freedom of California from Mexican rule. On July 9, 1846, the Bear Flag was hauled down and the American Flag raised in its place by Lt. J.W. Revere, U.S.A., who was sent to Sonoma from San Francisco by Commander J.B. Montgomery of the U.S. Sloop of War Portsmouth, following the raising of the American Flag at Monterey July 7, 1846, by Commodore John Drake Sloat.
Submitted: January 17, 2009, by Syd Whittle of Mesa, Arizona.
Database Locator Identification Number: p50282
File Size: 1.221 Megabytes

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