HBUSA started in 2018 with 204 geocaches published in Michigan.
This year we hope to surpass 250 caches and events to celebrate America's semiquincentennial!
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"Clear federal rules governing how the stars were arranged or which direction their points had to face did not exist until President Taft issued an official executive order in 1912. For over a century, flag makers were free to orient the stars sideways, upside down, or in concentric circular medallions based entirely on personal preference or hidden fraternal codes. If the primary visual orientation of the nation's highest symbol was completely unregulated for over a century, how many encrypted messages were hiding in plain sight on the battlefields of early America?" - Benjamin Franklin Gates, Private Journal (April 1, 2026)
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🔴 Red: Signifies hardiness and valor. It represents the country's courage, resilience, and structural readiness to face hardships to defend its liberty.
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⚪ White: Signifies purity and innocence. It represents the high moral ideals, integrity, and pure intentions of a nation built on honorable principles.
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🔵 Blue: Signifies vigilance, perseverance, and justice. It serves as a reminder to remain watchful against tyranny, steadfast in purpose, and fair in the execution of the law.
The American flag has gone through 27 official versions to become the 50-star flag it is today. This means the design has been officially modified 26 times since the original version was adopted.
In fact, the United States holds the record for the most evolutionary modifications made to a single continuous national flag framework, primarily because the design was built to grow dynamically alongside the country.
When Congress passed the official Flag Resolution on June 14, 1777, they wrote a surprisingly brief description of what the flag should look like:
"Resolved, That the flag of the United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation."
That was it. They specified the colors, the number of stripes, and the number of stars—but they completely failed to define how the stars should be arranged, which direction they should point, or even how many points each star should have (some had five, some had six or eight).
Because there was no "official blueprint," early flag makers were left to interpret the phrase "representing a new constellation" however they saw fit.
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