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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.
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.
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).
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.
The preceding information is largely taken from The North Carolina State Flag, originally written by W.R. Edmonds in 1942, and subsequently revised and reprinted by D.L. Corbitt in the NC Department of Archives and History (7th printing, 1974).
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.
The North Carolina State Flag. 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.
