There are four Betsy Ross flag banners on the columns of Liberty Tree Tavern. To fit their vertical orientation, the flags have five red and white stripes instead of the standard 13.

The actual flag Key saw — the Star-Spangled Banner — is now housed in a climate-controlled, light-protected chamber at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.

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American Francis Scott Key awoke on the morning of Sept. 14, 1814, to find that "our flag was still there" after horrific 25-hour British naval bombardment of Fort McHenry in Baltimore.