Iowa Old Press

Dubuque Herald,
Dubuque, Dubuque, Iowa
March 7, 1860


THE MAN who first unfurled and flung to the breeze the Star Spangled Bannner in Iowa, was an Irishman by the name of Nicholas Carrol, living in the vicinity of Dubuque. The flag was run up soon after twelve o'clock on the morning of the 4th of July, 1834.