Star-Spangled Banner National Historic Trail – District of Columbia

NATIONAL HISTORIC TRAIL

Star-Spangled Banner

DC, MD, VA

For three years the young United States was embroiled in the War of 1812 and the Chesapeake Bay region felt the brunt of it, choked by shipping blockades and ravaged by enemy raids. Through sites and landscapes in Virginia, the District of Columbia, and throughout Maryland, the Trail tells the stories of the events, people, and places that led to the birth of our National Anthem.