Florida, which joined the union as the 27th state in 1845, is nicknamed the Sunshine State and known for its balmy climate and natural beauty. Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon, who led the first European expedition to Florida in 1513, named the state in tribute to Spain’s Easter celebration known as “Pascua Florida,†or Feast of Flowers.
One of the most powerful and influential native groups of Florida was the Apalachee. At the time Europeans began arriving in America, the Apalachee controlled the fertile area near the Tallahassee hills between the Ochlockonee and Aucilla rivers. The fertile clay and loam soils of the hills supported the heaviest, most concentrated aboriginal population in the state. The present configuration of Florida's state banner was embraced in 1900. In that year, Florida voters confirmed an 1899 joint resolution of the state lawmaking body to include inclining red bars, as a St. Andrew's cross, to the banner.
Somewhere around 1868 and 1900, Florida's state banner comprised of a white field with the state seal in the inside. Amid the late 1890s, Governor Francis P. Fleming proposed that a red cross is included, so that the pennant did not seem, by all accounts, to be a white banner of ceasefire or surrender when hanging still on a flagpole.
After the Civil War, Florida was the first Southern state to adopt a flag of its own. On August 6, 1868, the state seal was designated to appear in the center of a white flag; the design showed an American Indian woman on a promontory extending into the water where a steamboat was sailing.
Today the cross on the Florida state banner gets from the Confederate Battle Flag. The State Seal on the banner elements a Native American Seminole lady diffusing blossoms, a steamboat, a cabbage palmetto tree and a splendid sun. The Florida state flag represents the land of sunshine, flowers, palm trees, rivers, and lakes la Florida.
There is a barrage of cheap and inferior Florida flags being imported and sold, that do not comply with the flag statute. This is bad for a number of reasons. Imported flags are cheaply made and more importantly, the designs, materials, colors, and methods of printing do not compare well with the better quality, longer-lasting, and correctly designed flags made by American manufacturers. The Flag Company Inc specialized in flag designs offered a special edition of decals and flags to memorize the history of Florida flag for the future.
One of the most powerful and influential native groups of Florida was the Apalachee. At the time Europeans began arriving in America, the Apalachee controlled the fertile area near the Tallahassee hills between the Ochlockonee and Aucilla rivers. The fertile clay and loam soils of the hills supported the heaviest, most concentrated aboriginal population in the state. The present configuration of Florida's state banner was embraced in 1900. In that year, Florida voters confirmed an 1899 joint resolution of the state lawmaking body to include inclining red bars, as a St. Andrew's cross, to the banner.
Somewhere around 1868 and 1900, Florida's state banner comprised of a white field with the state seal in the inside. Amid the late 1890s, Governor Francis P. Fleming proposed that a red cross is included, so that the pennant did not seem, by all accounts, to be a white banner of ceasefire or surrender when hanging still on a flagpole.
After the Civil War, Florida was the first Southern state to adopt a flag of its own. On August 6, 1868, the state seal was designated to appear in the center of a white flag; the design showed an American Indian woman on a promontory extending into the water where a steamboat was sailing.
Today the cross on the Florida state banner gets from the Confederate Battle Flag. The State Seal on the banner elements a Native American Seminole lady diffusing blossoms, a steamboat, a cabbage palmetto tree and a splendid sun. The Florida state flag represents the land of sunshine, flowers, palm trees, rivers, and lakes la Florida.
There is a barrage of cheap and inferior Florida flags being imported and sold, that do not comply with the flag statute. This is bad for a number of reasons. Imported flags are cheaply made and more importantly, the designs, materials, colors, and methods of printing do not compare well with the better quality, longer-lasting, and correctly designed flags made by American manufacturers. The Flag Company Inc specialized in flag designs offered a special edition of decals and flags to memorize the history of Florida flag for the future.
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