Friday 2 December 2016

Florida Flag And Flag Company Inc

By Adam Sirvestry


Numerous banners have flown over Florida since European pilgrims initially arrived here in the mid-sixteenth century. Among these have been the banners of five countries: Spain, France, Great Britain, the United States, and the Confederate States of America. The first people to enter the Florida peninsula around 12,000 years ago were not explorers, adventurers, or settlers, but nomads following the big game animals upon which their survival depended on. Sea level was lower and rainfall less plentiful than today.

During the first half of the 1800s, U.S. troops waged war with the region’s Native American population. During the Civil War, Florida was the third state to secede from the Union.

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.

In the changing of the Constitution in 1968, the measurements were dropped and got to be statutory language. The banner is depicted in these words: "The seal of the state, of diameter one-half the hoist, in the center of a white ground. Red bars in width one-fifth the hoist extending from each corner toward the center to the outer rim of the seal." The Seminoles of Florida call themselves the "Unconquered People," descendants of just 300 Indians who managed to elude capture by the U.S. army in the 19th century. Today, more than 2,000 live on six reservations in the state - located in Hollywood, Big Cypress, Brighton, Immokalee, Ft. Pierce, and Tampa.

A band with the state name and the motto “In God, we trust” completed the design. On November 6, 1900, a red saltire was added to the background of the flag so it would not resemble a symbol of surrender. That design may also have been based on the saltire in the Confederate Battle Flag. On May 21, 1985, an artistic revision of the seal was made, resulting in the present design of the flag.

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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