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by Matthew White, 15 January 2002
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Here's the official flag of the City of Richmond, Commonwealth of Virginia, USA. I sketched it from flags flying around town so the boatman might be a little misshapen, but the general geometric proportions should be accurate. I took them from the City Code.
Matthew White, 15 January 2002
The city changed the flag design in 1993. The flag consists of 2/3 blue over
1/3 red horizontal bars, with a centered white silhouette of a person poling a
bateaux on a river, presumably the James River. The person is nameless and
faceless, representing all of the people who helped build the city of Richmond.
Over the silhouette in a semi-circle are nine five-pointed stars, representing
the nine states that were eventually carved from the State of Virginia's
original territory.
anonymous contributor, 16 July 2002
Richmond's first city flag was a two-sided flag. Both sides contained designs
within a Roman shield on a white background. The front featured Justice holding
scales and blindfolded, surrounded by the words 'City of Richmond, founded
MDCCXXXVII, by William Byrd'. The back had a Confederate Battle flag on it, with
the words 'Deo Vindice' (God will vindicate) underneath the Battle flag. The
surrounding field was a dark blue. The flag was adopted in 1914. However, due to
the Confederate design being offensive to the black majority population and the
overall design being very expensive to reproduce, it was rarely flown,
especially since the early 1960's.
anonymous contributor, 16 July 2002