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Alabama Symbols

Alabama Symbols. Alabama's coat of arms displays a shield with the emblems of five governments that have ruled in the state. The flags of Spain, France, Great Britain, and the Confederacy sit behind the emblem of the United States.

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Alabama Symbols

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  1. Alabama Symbols

  2. Alabama's coat of arms displays a shield with the emblems of five governments that have ruled in the state. The flags of Spain, France, Great Britain, and the Confederacy sit behind the emblem of the United States. Bald eagles (symbols of courage) are on the sides. The ship that sailed from France in 1699 to settle a colony near present - day Mobile is on top of it. “Official State Motto” "Audemusjura nostra defendere" or "We Dare Defend Our Rights." This Latin phrase is on the state coat of arms completed in 1923.

  3. Alabama State Capitol Building The capital of Alabama is located in Montgomery. The capitol building was built in 1851. In 1965 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Addressed a crowd of nearly 30, 000. Who had marched from Selma to Montgomery to hear him.

  4. Alabama State Seal Alabama's Great Seal was designed by the first governor, William Wyatt Bibb, in 1817 when he was the head of the Alabama Territory. It features an outline of the state of Alabama showing the state’s major rivers, as well as bordering states. It became the official state seal in 1939.

  5. Alabama State Flag Crimson St. Andrew's cross on a white field, patterned after the Confederate Battle Flag, and adopted in 1895. The bars forming the cross must not be less than six inches broad and must extend diagonally across the flag from side to side.

  6. Alabama State Bird • The yellow-hammer is the state bird of Alabama. It became the official bird of Alabama in 1927.

  7. State Mammal Alabama designated the black bear as official state mammal in 1996.

  8. State Insect The Monarch Butterfly is a native butterfly well-known to Alabama. In 1989 it became the state insect.

  9. State Reptile The Alabama Red-Bellied Turtle became the state reptile in 1990. The red-belly inhabits the fresh waters of the Mobile Delta in Mobile and Baldwin Counties. They are often seen basking on logs. It is found nowhere else in the world.

  10. State Freshwater Fish The largemouth bass was chosen as the state freshwater fish in 1975 State Saltwater Fish In 1955, the tarpon became the state fish of Alabama. Later it became the state saltwater fish because of the 1975 declaration of the largemouth bass as the state freshwater fish.

  11. Alabama’s state flower is the Camellia Japonica. The state flower used to be the goldenrod ,it was chosen by school kids in 1927 as their favorite flower. In 1927 a group of garden society ladies thought that the goldenrod was unworthy as the state flower because it was considered a weed . The state flower was officially changed to the Camellia Japonica in 1959. The goldenrod Alabama State Flower Camellia Japonica

  12. Alabama State TreeThe Longleaf Pine The longleaf pine grows mainly in the lower two thirds of the state. It can grow to a height of about 150 ft and nearly four ft around . It has the largest pinecone of any pine tree grown in the eastern U.S.

  13. Nicknames The Yellowhammer State- During the civil war a company of Alabama soldiers wore uniforms trimmed with yellow cloth and were named the yellowhammers because they resembled the bright yellow feathers beneath the wings of the yellowhammer bird. The Cotton State -Alabama is centrally located in the cotton belt and cotton production was a major influence in the growth and culture of the state. The Heart of Dixie-(originally because Montgomery was the first capital of the Confederate States during the Civil War).

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