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Virginia State Symbols Online

Virginia Symbols, Emblems, and Mascots

Virginia State Symbols Online is a state resource directory containing descriptions and pictures of the state symbols, emblems, and mascots of the state, which can be quickly accessed. This resource guide represents many of Virginia state facts such as Virginia state symbols, the state flower, the state gemstone, the state insect, the state tree, the state bird, the state animal, the state flag that flies over Virginia, and the capital, as well as many more symbols, emblems, and mascots. These types of state directories are designed to help children learn, and are often used by children in the public and private education system as well as home schooled children.

Virginia State Symbols, Emblems, and Mascots

State Symbol Name - Scientific Date Adopted
Artisans Center Artisans Center of Virginia, Waynesboro Jul 1, 1999
Bat Virginia Big-Eared Bat (Corynorhinus townsendii virginianus) Jul 1, 2005
Beverage Milk 1982
Bird Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis) Jan 25, 1950
Boat Chesapeake Bay Deadrise Mar 25, 1988
Dog American Foxhound 1966
Emergency Medical Services Museum "To the Rescue", Roanoke 1994
Fish Brook Trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) 1993
Flag Stae Flag 1930
Fleet Replicas of the three ships, Susan Constant, Godspeed, and Discovery Jul 1, 2001
Floral Emblem American Dogwood (Cornus florida) Mar
1918
Folk Dance Square Dance 1991
Folklore Center The Blue Ridge Institute, Ferrum 1986
Fossil Chesapecten jeffersonius 1993
Gold Mining
Interpretive Center
Monroe Park, Goldvein, County of Fauquier, Virginia

Historical Outdoor Drama
"The Long Way Home" 1994
Insect Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly (Papilio glaucous Linne)
1991
Language English 1996
Motto Sic Semper Tyrannis, (Thus Always to Tyrants) 1776

Motor Sports Museum
"Wood Brothers Racing Museum and Virginia Motor Sports Hall of Fame", Patrick County 1995
Nicknames NA NA
Outdoors Drama
"The Trail of the Lonesome Pine Outdoor Drama" 1994
Poet Laureate- 2002

Poet Laureate- 2000

George Garrett

Grace Simpson

Jul,
2002 ;

Jul,
2000

Seal Great Seal Jul 5, 1776
Shell Oyster Shell (Crassostraea virginica) Mar 5, 1974
Song "Carry Me Back to Old Virginia" 1940;
Retired 1997
Sport Hall of Fame Virginia Sports Hall of Fame, Portsmouth 1996
Tree Flowering Dogwood (Cornaceae Cornus florida) Feb 24, 1956
War Memorial Museum "Virginia War Museum", Newport 1997

 

State Symbols
State Map: Symbols
State symbols represent things that are special to a particular state.

symbol \ˈsim-bəl\
noun

Etymology:
in sense 1, from Late Latin symbolum, from Late Greek symbolon, from Greek, token, sign; in other senses from Latin symbolum token, sign, symbol, from Greek symbolon, literally, token of identity verified by comparing its other half, from symballein to throw together, compare, from syn- + ballein to throw — more at devil
Date: 15th century

1: Something that represents something else by association, resemblance, or convention, especially a material object used to represent something invisible.
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