Lincoln Depot Museum Hosts Flag Day Ceremony with Elks Lodge

The public is invited to a special Flag Day Ceremony at the Lincoln Depot Museum.

Peekskill is where President-elect Abraham Lincoln addressed a crowd of more than 3,000 citizens on Feb. 19, 1861. It was the only speech that Lincoln ever gave in Westchester County.

The museum, in the historic train depot where he stopped that day, is a Westchester gem.

The origin of Flag Day in the United States started with a young schoolteacher named Bernard J. Cigrand in 1885. After many years of effort on the part of Cigrand to bring about a national day of recognition for our flag, President Wilson issued a proclamation in 1916 announcing a national observance of Flag Day on June 14th.

The day was finally memorialized as National Flag Day by an act of Congress and signed into law by President Truman in 1949.

If you go:

WHO: The Peekskill Elks Lodge #744 and Lincoln Depot Museum

WHAT: Flag Day Ceremony

WHEN: Sunday, June 14, 2015 at 1 PM

WHERE: Lincoln Depot Museum, 10 South Water St. Peekskill, NY 10566