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History of the New Jersey State Flag

The beautiful buff color of the New Jersey State Flag dates all the way back to 1779 and the New Jersey Regiments mustered for the Revolutionary War. The color was chosen by General George Washington when he was directed to prescribe the uniform for the regiments of the New Jersey Continental Line. General Washington directed that the coats of the soldiers should be dark blue faced with buff. On February 28, 1780, the Continental War Officers directed that each regiment should carry two flags; one that of the United States and the other a state flag that should be the color of the Uniform facing and the New Jersey State Flag has carried that color with it for over 200 years. In 1896, New Jersey made this their official state flag. The first State Flag of New Mexico flown over the state was designed by historian Ralph Emerson Twitchell. Mr. Twitchell's state flag was blue with a small representation of the flag of the United States in the upper left hand corner and the New Mexico State Seal in the lower right hand corner. "NEW MEXICO" was embroidered diagonally across the state flag from the lower left hand corner to the upper right hand corner.

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