The Star-Spangled Banner Flag House is a National Historic Landmark and historic house museum in Baltimore, Maryland. The Museum preserves the historic 1793 structure and interprets the life of Mary Young Pickersgill, a nineteenth-century female entrepreneur and the craftswoman of the flag which flew over Fort McHenry and inspired the National Anthem. It was this flag that Francis Scott Key saw flying over the fort which inspired him to pen the poem that became our National Anthem in 1931.

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