Louisiana’s Pelican Flag
Posted in History on Mar 19th, 2007
Pelicans! Louisiana’s state flag is like no other in the Union, and uses an emblem that is virtually unchanged from the eleventh century. Louisiana joined the Union in 1812, and took another one hundred years to adopt its flag though it was used throughout the state long before that.
Louisiana’s Pelican Flag
The flag’s ancient heraldic charge, [...]
