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History. First flag (1861–1865) State flag (1861–1865) North Carolina did not have an official state flag until the North Carolinian state constitutional convention of 1861. During this convention, delegates voted to join the Confederacy. They established a committee to come up with a flag. This flag was ratified by the convention on June 22, 1861.
State Flag. Although not the state’s first flag, the current North Carolina state flag has been left largely unchanged over the past 125 years. On February 5, 1885, General Johnston Jones introduced a bill to the General Assembly to adopt a new version of the state flag.
U.S. state flag consisting of a horizontal red stripe over a white stripe and, at the hoist, a vertical blue stripe incorporating a white star, the initials of the state (“NC”), and two ribbons. There is an unsubstantiated reference to a North Carolina flag of the Revolutionary War era (1775–83).
28 Νοε 2014 · See also: To access a list of North Carolina's state symbols and adoptions and links to NCpedia articles, visit the North Carolina State Symbols main page. The NCpedia State Symbols Timeline was developed using TimelineJS, a project of KnightLab at Northwestern University.
State flag history. In Colonial North Carolina, the flag most often seen would have been that of the colony’s mother country, England, and later Great Britain. Prior to the Act of Union in 1707, the flag would have been that known as St. George’s Cross.
North Carolina State Flag History: On May 20, 1861, the day that the secession resolution was adopted by the state of North Carolina, an ordinance to adopt a state flag was presented by Colonel John D. Whitford. A committee of seven was formed with Colonel Whitford appointed chairman.
The first symbol was the Seal of North Carolina, which was made official in 1871. The original seal also contained the future state motto. It served as the state's only emblem for 14 years until the adoption of the state flag in 1885.
