COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) – It’s Flag Day 2017 in the United States and for the City of Coldwater, Flag Day is always celebrated with some extra flare.
For more than seven decades, Coldwater has been known as the “Flag City”. That designation came about in the 1940’s largely through the efforts of Anne Brown. She was a European immigrant turned American citizen with great pride and love for her adopted country, so much so that Brown became well known in Coldwater.
She made it her quest to have flags fly all over the city and walked door to door across town to spread the word of her patriotic plan, which was ultimately achieved. Brown went on to serve as Coldwater City Clerk and was active in the American Legion Auxiliary.
Anne Brown would be proud to witness the increased display of the Stars and Stripes in Coldwater since 2012 when the Coldwater Kiwanis Club and Boy Scout Troop 433 launched their “Flags Across Coldwater” project. For the past six years, the scouts and troop leaders have planted flags in solid bases across the central business district and on poles in the ground in front of homes.
It happens for the handful of major flag holidays, such as today, with the annual cost of subscribing to the flag project $30 and $20 for each additional flag.
