Last week’s article focused on how, 125 years ago, Wyoming and Idaho became states. That changed the American flag, but what are their state flags like? Do they have interesting capital city flags as well? IDAHO The state flag of Idaho uses the words “State of Idaho” twice. That’s because it’s made up of the… continue
In 1664, when it was a British colony, Rhode Island quickly came up with a one-word slogan: “Hope.” Then things slowed down. It just squeaked onto the list of the first states in the Union, and it took forever to design a state flag. Even then, R.I. couldn’t make up its mind. Rhode Island became… continue
Gettysburg Flag Works is just a skip and a hop (over the Hudson River) from Albany, the capital city of the State of New York. For that reason, just a month ago, we were called in to assist on a news story relating to one design element in the state flag. The story goes, that… continue
The odds are in your favor that the State of Nevada, home of gambling, will change its official flag. After all, it has done so repeatedly. When President Lincoln signed the document accepting the state into the Union 150 years ago, Nevadans came in waving nothing. As noted on its website, “the Legislature did not… continue