Who created the design for the first Texas Flag?
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[ LARGE PRINT VERSION ]    [ LARGER PRINT VERSION ] \nEarly designs of the flag are attributed to many including Joanna Troutman, Sara Dodson, Charles Bellinger Stewart, Peter Krag and William Wharton, but it was long held that the actual designer of the Lone Star Flag was not known. The Texas House "may" have put an end to the mystery in 1997. House Resolution 1123, Commemorating Montgomery County as the birthplace of the Lone Star Flag, declares, in part, that: \n\n...WHEREAS, At the request of President Mirabeau B. Lamar, Dr. Charles B. Stewart of Montgomery County created this inspirational banner, and the elegant simplicity of his design truly exemplified the united will of the citizens of the new Republic of Texas; and...\n\nHouse Resolution 1123\n\nOfficial artwork created for the Lone Star Flag approved by President Lamar was drawn by Peter Krag.
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Today the flag consists of thirteen horizontal stripes, seven red alternating with 6 white. The stripes represent the original 13 colonies, the stars represent the 50 states of the Union. The colors of the flag are symbolic as well: Red symbolizes Hardiness and Valor, White symbolizes Purity and Innocence and Blue represents Vigilance, Perseverance and Justice.
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Because on the Texas flag there is only one star.Get it?I live in Texas that's how I know.
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http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~gulino/ghosttown/texas.htm\n\nThis can be interesting
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I beleive it was originally created because the Pink Triangle symbol (while still a common symbol of gays) has its history from Nazi Germany where that is what they would tattoo on internments to symbolize homos. So we wanted something that had pure positive history and feel. \n\nBut wikipedia says:\n The rainbow flag was first used to symbolize gay pride and diversity by San Francisco artist Gilbert Baker; as of 2003, it currently consists of six colored stripes of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet. It is most commonly flown with the red stripe on top, as the colors appear in a natural rainbow.\n\n\nThe original gay-pride flag was hand-dyed by Baker. It first flew in the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade on June 25, 1978. The flag consisted of eight stripes; Baker assigned specific meaning to each of the colors as follows:\n\nhot pink - sexuality \nred - life \norange - healing \nyellow - sunlight \ngreen - nature \nturquoise - magic \nblue - serenity \nviolet - spirit \n\nAfter the November 27, 1978 assassination of openly gay City Supervisor Harvey Milk, demand for the rainbow flag greatly increased. To meet demand, the Paramount Flag Company began selling a version of the flag using stock rainbow fabric consisting of seven stripes of red, orange, yellow, green, turquoise, blue, and violet. As Baker ramped up production of his version of the flag, he too dropped the hot pink stripe due to the unavailability of hot-pink fabric. Also, San Francisco-based Paramount Flag Co. began selling a surplus stock of Rainbow Girls flags from its Polk Street retail store, which was located in a large gay neighborhood.\n\n \nDavie Village banners on Davie Street in VancouverIn 1979, the flag was modified again. When hung vertically from the lamp posts of San Francisco's Market Street, the center stripe was obscured by the post itself. Changing the flag design to one with an even number of stripes was the easiest way to rectify this, so the turquoise stripe was dropped, which resulted in a six stripe version of the flag - red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet.\n\n\nThe rainbow flag celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2003. During the gay pride celebrations in June of that year, Gilbert Baker restored the rainbow flag back to its original eight-striped version and has since advocated that others do the same. However the eight-striped version has seen little adoption by the wider gay community, which has mostly stuck with the better known six-striped version. \n\nToday many homosexuals often put rainbow flags in the front of their yards or use rainbow bumper stickers on their vehicles to use as an outward symbol of their homosexuality.
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Ohio is the only one of the 50 states to use a nonrectangular flag. Its designer, John Eisenmann, may have been inspired by the swallow-tailed shape of a guidon that was carried by the U.S. cavalry. The flag was to be flown from the Ohio building at the Pan-American Exposition of 1901, a circumstance that may also have contributed to its unusual shape.
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The original constitution of the State of Texas provided that the state legislature could, at its first meeting determine county boundaries.
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Flag Day, which is celebrated every June 14th because on June 14,1777 the first flag of the US was dedicated.
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This would have been the flag from 1859-1861.  The 33rd star was added for Oregon.
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No one knows with absolute certainty who designed the first stars and stripes or who made it. Congressman Francis Hopkinson seems most likely to have designed it, and few historians believe that Betsy Ross, a Philadelphia seamstress, made the first one.
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Unfortunately your friend is right IT is red and white...\nEver since they started it has always been red and white. i think red and blue are some team in texas don't exctly know their name but it goes like red soemthing so you might have gotten messed up with that.
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Werecrow answered the question correctly. I would like to add that "Betsy Ross" creating the U.S. flag is largely considered to be fiction. If you look at pictures of early U.S. flags you can see how U.S. Revolutionary flag designers borrowed the colors from the Union Jack, the British flag.
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The University of Texas originated in 1839,
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Try these's link\n\nhttp://www.designschools.org/\n\nhttp://www.artinstitutes.edu/dallas/
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It was George Washington!!!\n\nhttp://www.state.nj.us/njfacts/flag.htm
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Burnt orange\n\nhttp://www.over5000gifts.com/images/SPOR01/thumbs2/TexasLonghorns.jpg\n\nHook 'em!
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The Fourth of July was traditionally celebrated as America's birthday, but the idea of an annual day specifically celebrating the Flag is believed to have first originated in 1885. BJ Cigrand, a schoolteacher, arranged for the pupils in the Fredonia, Wisconsin Public School, District 6, to observe June 14 (the 108th anniversary of the official adoption of The Stars and Stripes) as 'Flag Birthday'. In numerous magazines and newspaper articles and public addresses over the following years, Cigrand continued to enthusiastically advocate the observance of June 14 as 'Flag Birthday', or 'Flag Day'. \n\nOn June 14, 1889, George Balch, a kindergarten teacher in New York City, planned appropriate ceremonies for the children of his school, and his idea of observing Flag Day was later adopted by the State Board of Education of New York. On June 14, 1891, the Betsy Ross House in Philadelphia held a Flag Day celebration, and on June 14 of the following year, the New York Society of the Sons of the Revolution, celebrated Flag Day. \n\n\n\nAs Americans, we have every right to be proud of our culture, our nation, and our flag. So raise the flag today and every day with pride!