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The flag included the number "16", Tennessee having been admitted as the 16th state of the Union, and the words "The Volunteer State", the state's official nickname. The current flag was designed by Colonel Le Roy Reeves, [4] a Johnson City attorney who was then serving in the Tennessee National Guard. [5]
Tennessee's state flag, adopted in 1905, has three stars representing the state's three Grand Divisions: West, Middle, and East Tennessee.The designer was LeRoy Reeves of the Tennessee National Guard, who explained: "The three stars are of pure white, representing the three grand divisions of the state.
Tennessee: 1897 1905 Tennessee: Texas: 1836 1839 Texas: Utah: 1850 1903 1913 2011 2024 Utah: Vermont: 1770 1804 1837 1923 Vermont: Virginia: 1861 1865 1950 Virginia: Washington: 1923 1967 Washington: Washington D.C. 1924 1938 Washington D.C. West Virginia: 1907 1929 West Virginia: Wisconsin: 1866 1913 1981 Wisconsin: Wyoming: 1917 Wyoming ...
According to USA.gov, the U.S. flag flies at half-staff or at half-mast when the nation or a state is in mourning. The flag can be ordered to fly at half-staff by the president, a state governor ...
The U.S. flag is usually flown at full staff on Flag Day, though a president or state governor issues a proclamation to fly it at half staff. People are also reading: Flags are half-staff in Texas ...
On May 7, 1937—Pennsylvania had become the first official state to declare Flag Day (June 14) an official state holiday. And then on August 3, 1949, Congress approved the national observance of ...
Conquistador Hernando de Soto, first European to visit Tennessee. In the 16th century, three Spanish expeditions passed through what is now Tennessee. [12] The Hernando de Soto expedition entered the Tennessee Valley via the Nolichucky River in June 1540, rested for several weeks at the village of Chiaha (near the modern Douglas Dam), and proceeded southward to the Coosa chiefdom in northern ...
Flags are at half-staff around the United States today in honor of former first lady Rosalynn Carter. Here's how long flags will be at half-staff.