Did you know that Yahoo! named South Carolina’s state flag the best design of all 50 states?
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Originally adopted in 1861, South Carolina’s flag has a well-known design featuring a Palmetto tree shape and crescent, both in white, laid over an indigo field.
YAHOO! said that they “immediately imagine a slice of heaven,” when looking at our state flag. “Perhaps we’re floating on a lake several miles outside Charleston on a warm fall day, a radio broadcast of a World Series game humming softly, and we’ve got a Pat Conroy novel juuust hitting the midpoint.”
Sounds about right.
See the full YAHOO! article here with all 50 state flags ranked.
The original design, by Colonel William Moultrie, dates back to 1775.
The crescent on the flag is often mistaken for the crescent moon, when actually the crescent was intended to reproduce the silver emblem worn on the front of the caps worn by military volunteers; while the Palmetto tree symbolized Moultrie’s construction of a palmetto log-lined fort on Sullivan’s Island to defend against the British in 1776. The fort near Charleston now bears his name.
One of the many unique things about living in South Carolina is the sweeping use of the South Carolina State Flag symbols to represent our connection to home. The symbols on our State Flag are everywhere, even on the back of our cars and on shirts, plastic cups, Christmas ornaments, backpacks, signs, stickers….you name it.
Read The Palmetto Tree & Crescent: Symbols of home
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