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Alabama State Flag
The flag of Alabama is a reminder of the Confederate Battle Flag used during the Civil War. The current flag was adopted in 1895 and is a crimson cross on a white field. Although it is square, law does not lay down the dimensions. The state governor's flag is almost identical, except for carrying the state seal in the top triangle and the state crest,...
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Alaska State Flag
In 1927 the competition to design a flag for Alaska was won by 13-year-old Benny Benson who got his inspiration from Alaska's northerly position. The flag shows the large North Star with the Great Bear below it. When Alaska was given statehood in 1959 the flag remained the same. The stars are the yellow color of natural gold and the field is the same...
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Arizona State Flag
Arizona was entered into the United States in 1848, after the Mexican War, but did not have a flag until 1911. The territory's Adjutant General, Charles Harris, designed a flag and it was made official in 1917. Harris indicated that his design was meant to show the sun setting over the desert with the central star symbolizing the main mineral found in...
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Arkansas State Flag
The flag of Arkansas is also a reminder of the Confederate Battle Flag with its blue diagonals and white stars and was created by one of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Miss Willie Hocker. The three blues stars in the center represent the three states that were created from the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, Arkansas included. The blue star...
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California State Flag
The current flag of California is meant to be a recreation of the original Californian flag that was lost in the devastating earthquake of 1906. California was without a state flag until 1911. The grizzly bear that appears on the white field is now extinct but in 1846 would have been an ideal symbol of ferocity. Adopted in 1849, the grizzly bear also...
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Colorado State Flag
When Colorado entered the Union in 1876 it was known as the Centennial State or the Columbine State, so the red C can stand for either of those names or for the state itself. For many years Colorado was ruled by Spain, the name meaning red. Like Arizona, the red and yellow recall the Spanish colors. The Rocky Mountain Columbine is blue, white, and gold...
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Connecticut State Flag
The Connecticut flag, which is among one of the most ancient flags, was originally used during the Revolutionary War when Connecticut troops used this seal on their flag. The flag consisting of a blue field with the arms in the center was officially adopted in 1895 after pressure from the Daughters of the American Revolution. On June 3, 1897 it was...
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Delaware State Flag
The 1777 coat of arms on the Delaware flag consists of a soldier and a farmer supporting a shield with a wheatsheaf, an ear of corn and an ox representing Delaware's agricultural foundation. A ship in full sail symbolizes Delaware's status as a maritime state; the blue and bluff correspond to the colors of the Revolutionary War uniform. The diamond was...
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Florida State Flag
Florida created a new state seal after it seceded from the Union in 1861, and made final modifications to the seal in 1970. Florida Governor Francis P. Fleming, who thought that the predominately white flag looked too much like the traditional flag of surrender, added the red cross of St. Andrew to the white flag with the state seal in the middle....
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Georgia State Flag
The current flag of the U.S. state of Georgia was adopted on May 8, 2003. The flag has three red and white stripes, with the state coat of arms (taken from the state seal) on a blue field in the upper left corner. In the coat of arms, the arch symbolizes the state's Constitution and the pillars represent the three branches of government: legislative,...
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Hawaii State Flag
The Union Jack was Hawaii's flag until 1816 when Hawaii was under British protection. The Union Jack remains in the canton of the Hawaii flag, the rest of the flag consisting of varying numbers of red, white and blue stripes. In 1845 the number of stripes became eight, each stripe representing one of the main islands in the Hawaiian chain.
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Idaho State Flag
The state seal that appears on the Idaho state flag was designed by Miss Emma Edwards in 1891. The star that appears in the lower part of the golden rim indicated that Idaho was a new state. The Idaho state flag was originally the state name in a blue field but was changed in March of 1927 Miss Edwards surviving original artwork. The miner in the state...
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Illinois State Flag
In 1915 the Daughters of the American Revolution were instrumental in organizing a competition for the design of the state flag. Some of their members designed the winning flag bearing the state seal. The seal consists of an eagle standing on a rock with a red ribbon bearing the state motto in its mouth. A shield bearing the Stars and Stripes leans on...
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Indiana State Flag
Indiana officially has two state flags, because after law adopted the new flag in 1955, the law of 1901 adopting the Stars and Stripes was never repealed. Paul Hadley's design won yet another state flag competition run by the Daughters of the American Revolution in 1916. His design is yellow on a blue field, with the Liberty Torch in the center....
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Iowa State Flag
The Daughters of the American Revolution organized another state flag contest won by DAR member Dixie Cornell Gebhardt in 1917. The winning flag design, adopted in 1921, is on a background of three vertical red, white and blue stripes representing Iowa's part in the 1803 Louisiana Purchase. The blue stripe represents loyalty, truth and justice, the...
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Kansas State Flag
The Kansas state flag shows the state seal, which shows a rising sun, and the 34 stars symbolize the states that were in the Union in 1861. The state seal shows a ploughman preparing the field for planting. The native wild sunflower resting on a twisted wreath of blue and gold shown on the blue field was adopted as the state flower in 1903. The state...
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Kentucky State Flag
The Kentucky state flag shows a simplified version of the state seal depicting "two friends embracing" centered on a blue field. The "Commonwealth of Kentucky" appears in gold lettering around the top half of the seal with two sprigs of the state flower, goldenrod form an arc around the bottom of the seal.Annin state flags are made from...
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Louisiana State Flag
In 1912, one hundred years after attaining state status, the legislature of Louisiana adopted its official state flag, featuring an image of a mother pelican feeding her three baby pelican’s in their nest. The symbol of the pelican family has its origins in the earliest days of Louisiana’s settlement. Legend has it that the state’s first residents were...
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Maine State Flag
Although a second Maine state flag was adopted in 1901, this flag is rarely seen. This flag shows a pine tree in the center of a buff background, with the North Star in blue within the canton. The first and almost exclusively still-used flag features the state seal of 1820. The design shows the White Pine state tree with an indigenous moose beneath it...
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Maryland State Flag
The Maryland state flag is complex design borrowed from the first Lord Baltimore's, George Calvert, family coat of arms. The upper left and lower right corners of the flag contain the Calvert family coat of arms, a black and gold design with six vertical bands in the Maryland state colors. The upper right and lower left cantons reveal a red and white...
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Massachusetts State Flag
The Massachusetts flag has a blue, gold and white design on a white field. The state seal appears in the middle, and has an Indian in gold on a blue shield with a white star representing the United States above it. Above the shield is a crest with an arm holding sword, below it is a scroll containing the state motto "Ense petit placidam sub libertate...
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Michigan State Flag
Michigan's third and current flag was adopted in 1911. It consists of the state seal on a blue field. In the seal, a moose and elk support a shield with a picture of man waving on the shores of Lake Michigan with a sun rising behind him. Inscriptions in Latin translate into "If you are seeking a pleasant peninsula, look around you," "I will defend,"...
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Minnesota State Flag
The present Minnesota flag was designed in 1957, and has the state seal on a blue field. The Lady Slipper, the state flower, runs around the white circle around the seal which features a landscape with a Native American riding past a farmer cultivating his field. A scroll containing the state motto, "Letiole du Nord" ("Star of the North"), nineteen...
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Mississippi State Flag
The Mississippi state flag was adopted in 1894 and remains one of the most controversial flags in the U.S. The controversy revolves around the Confederate Battle flag as the canton. Mississippi is now the only state to feature the Confederate Battle flag so prominently, citizens voted in 2001 not to change the flag. The remainder of the flag is similar...
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Missouri State Flag
The Missouri state flag is another Daughter of the American Revolution designed flag consisting of the state seal centered on a field of three horizontal stripes of the French flag's red, white and blue, acknowledging that the land was sold to the U.S. as part of the Louisiana Purchase. Missouri was the twenty-fourth state to join the Union, resulting...
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