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North Carolina State Symbols, Songs, and Emblems

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DesignationList a-z Symbol / Emblem Adopted

Sources...

North Carolina General Assembly. North Carolina General Statutes <http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/gascripts/statutes/Statutes.asp> Accessed January 23, 2011.
Shankle, George Earlie. State Names, Flags, Seals, Songs, Birds, Flowers, and Other Symbols. Irvine, Calif.: Reprint Services Corp, Revised edition, 1971.
Shearer, Benjamin F. and Barbara S. State Names, Seals, Flags and Symbols: A Historical Guide Third Edition, Revised and Expanded. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 3 Sub edition, 2001.

Art medium Clay 2013
Blue berry Blueberry (Genus Vaccinium) 2001
Beverage Milk 1987
Bird Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis) 1943
Blue Monday shad fry Blue Monday Shad Fry, East Acadia 2013
Butterfly Eastern tiger swallowtail (Papilio glaucus) 2012
Carnivorous plant Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) 2005
Collard festival Ayden Collard Festival 2007
Colors Red and blue 1945
Community theater The Thalian Association, Wilmington 2007
Christmas tree Fraser fir (Abies fraseri) 2005
Dog Plott hound (Canis lupus familiaris) 1989
Flag Find out more... 1885
Flower Dogwood (Genus Cornus) 1941
Folk art Whirligigs created by Vollis Simpson 2013
Folk dance Clogging 2005
Food Festival of the Piedmont Triad Region of the State of North Carolina Lexington Barbecue Festival 2007
Fossil Fossilized teeth of the megalodon shark 2013
Freshwater trout Southern Appalachian strain of brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) 2005
Frog Pine barrens tree frog (Hyla andersonii) 2013
Fruit Scuppernong grape (Genus SYMBSCI) 2001
Great seal Find out more... 1893
Herring festival Herring Festival held in the Town of Jamesville 2011
Historical boat Shad boat 1987
Horse Colonial Spanish mustang (Equus ferus caballus) 2010
Insect Honeybee (Apis millifera) 1973
International festival Folkmoot USA 2003
Irish potato festival Albemarle Potato Festival, Elizabeth City 2009
Language English 1987
Mammal Grey squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) 1969
Marsupial Virginia opossum (Didelphis virginiana) 2013
Military academy Oak Ridge Military Academy, Oak Ridge 1991
Mineral Gold (Aurum) 2011
Northeastern watermelon festival Hertford County Watermelon Festival, Murfreesboro 1993
Peanut festival Dublin Peanut Festival 2013
Popular dance Shagging 2005
Precious stone Emerald 1973
Red berry Strawberry (Genus Fragaria) 2001
Reptile and emblem Turtle, Eastern box turtle 1979
Rock Granite 1979
Salamander Marbled salamander (Ambystoma opacum) 2013
Saltwater fish Channel bass or Red drum(Sciaenops ocellatus) 1971
Salute to flag Find out more... 2007
Shad festival Grifton Shad Festival 2011
Shrimp festival Sneads Ferry Shrimp Festival 2011
Shell Scotch bonnet (pronounced bonay) (Semicassis granulata) 1965
Song "The Old North State," words by William Gaston, music by Mrs. E. E. Randolph 1927
Southeastern watermelon festival Fair Bluff Watermelon Festival, Columbus County 1993
Sport Stock car racing 2011
Tartan Find out more... 1991
Toast "A Toast" to North Carolina 1957
Tree Pine (Genus Pinus) 1963
Vegetable Sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) 1995
Veterans Day parade Veterans Day Parade held in the Town of Warsaw 2016
Wildflower Carolina lily (Lilium michauxii) 2003

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Additional Information

State Symbols | NCpedia: The NCpedia project is coordinated and managed by the Government and Heritage Library at the State Library of North Carolina, part of the NC Department of Cultural Resources.

North Carolina State Symbols: Information about state symbols posted by the North Carolina Secretary of State.

North Carolina Facts and Symbols
North Carolina
Facts and Symbols

Shelley Swanson Sateren

North Carolina Facts and Symbols, by Shelley Swanson Sateren. 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 North Carolina 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
State Names, Seals
Flags and Symbols

Benjamin F. Shearer
Barbara S. Shearer

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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