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Designation | Symbol / Emblem | Adopted | ||||
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Sources...The State of Delaware, Delaware Facts and Symbols, <http://portal.delaware.gov/delfacts/default.shtml> (Accessed 16 December 2009)
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American folk dance | Square dance | 1994 | ||||
Beverage | Milk | 1983 | ||||
Bird | Blue Hen Chicken [ University of Delaware ] | 1939 | ||||
Bug | Lady Bug | 1974 | ||||
Butterfly | Tiger Swallowtail (Pterourus glaucus) | 1974 | ||||
Colors | Colonial Blue and Buff | 1953 | ||||
Dance | Maypole dancing | 2016 | ||||
Dessert | Peach Pie | 2009 | ||||
Dog | Golden Retriever | 2016 | ||||
Flag | Find our more... | 1913 | ||||
Fish | Weakfish (Genus Cynoscion) | 1981 | ||||
Floral Emblem | Peach Blossom (Prunus persica) | 1895 | ||||
Flower | Peach Blossom (Prunus persica) | 1955 | ||||
Fossil | Belemnite (Belemnitella americana) | 1996 | ||||
Fruit | Strawberries | 2010 | ||||
Great Seal | Find out more... | 1777 | ||||
Herb | Sweet Golden Rod (Solidago odora) | 1996 | ||||
Macroinvertebrate | Stonefly (Order Plecoptera) | 2005 | ||||
Marine Animal | Horseshoe Crab (Limulus polyphemus) | 2002 | ||||
Mineral | Sillimanite | 1977 | ||||
Shell | Shell of the channeled whelk | 2014 | ||||
Soil | Greenwich Loam (a course, loamy, mixed, semiactive, mesic, Typic Hapludult) | 2000 | ||||
Song | "Our Delaware," words by George B. Hynson and Donn Devine and music by Will M. S. Brown | 1925 | ||||
Sport | Bicycling | 2014 | ||||
Star | Delaware Diamond, located in the constellation of Ursa Major (Great Bear) | 2000 | ||||
Tree | American Holly (Aquifoliaceae Ilex opaca) | 1939 | ||||
Wildlife Animal | Grey Fox (Urocyon cinereoargenteus) | 2010 |
The Delaware Legislature, called the Delaware General Assembly, offers How a Bill Becomes Law and a Glossary of Legislative Terms to help us understand how laws are made in Delaware.
Delaware Facts and Symbols: from the State of Delaware, the Official Website of the First State.
Delaware Facts and Symbols, by Elaine A. Kule. 24 pages. Publisher: Capstone Press; Rev Upd edition (August 2003) Reading level: Grades 3-4. Interest level: Grades 3-9. Perfect for report writing! Easy-to-read text covers major Delaware symbols such as the state flag, seal, bird, tree, flower, animal, and more. A "Fast Facts" section highlights the state's capital city, largest city, physical size, population, natural resources, farm products, and primary manufactured goods. Also included are full-page maps that introduce the concept of the map key, which is great for teaching map-reading skills.
State Names, Seals, Flags and Symbols, by Benjamin F. Shearer, Barbara S. Shearer. 544 pages. Greenwood Press; 3 Sub edition (October 30, 2001) This is one of the best, and most comprehensive, books we could find about the official state names and nicknames, mottoes, seals, flags, capitols, flowers, trees, birds, songs, and miscellaneous designations of each state. This, coupled with the 1938 Shankle book, formed the basis of our symbol library. If you're serious about your states symbols, you'll want to have this book and the one below. This book also contains information about state holidays, license plates, sports teams, universities and other trivia.
State Names, Flags, Seals, Songs, Birds, Flowers, and Other Symbols, by George Earlie Shankle. 522 pages. Reprint Services Corp; Revised edition (June 1971) Reprint of the 1938 revised edition. The first comprehensive book about our state symbols! From the preface: "This book grew out of the desire of its author to know, about his native state, a great many facts which he found exceedingly difficult to obtain. After three years of research in the Library of Congress, he is able to give to the public this storehouse of information, which could have been gathered from not library less fertile in source material..."
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