Organizations like the Elks Club issued special flags of their own to celebrate the Bicentennial. All such organizations and businesses were encouraged by the National and local Bicentennial Commissions to visibly display and celebrate our country’s two hundredth birthday. After it was over, our Elks Lodge #295 donated this and one other flag to the troop's growing collection so it would see more use and give the Elks more visibility with what was already known as one of the most successful troops in the Tecumseh District of the Western Reserve Council.