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Mississippi State Symbols, Emblems, and Mascots

Mississippi Symbols, Mississippi Emblems, and Mississippi Mascots

Browse the state's symbols; state animal, state bird, state flower, state flag, state fossil, state insect, state motto, state seal, state tree, color, dance, fish, mammal, music, nut, reptile seal, and miscellaneous designations, emblems, and mascot of each state with pictures. Find origin of the state name. View the state almanacs, state timelines and peruse state facts and stats such as the capitol, location, and date admitted to the union.

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Mississippi Symbols, Emblems, and Mascots
American Folk Dance Square Dance, 1995
Beverage Milk, 1984
Bird Mockingbird, (Mimus polyglottos) February 23, 1944
Butterfly Spicebush Swallowtail (Battus philenor) 1991
Fish Largemouth or Black Bass (Micropterus salmoides) 1974
Flag State Flag, 1984
Flower Magnolia (Magnolia grandiflora) February 26, 1952
Fossil Prehistoric Whale (Basilosaurus cetoides), Zygorhiza kochii March 26, 1981
Grand Opera House Grand Opera House of Meridian, 1993
Insect Honeybee, (Apis mellifera) 1980
Language English, 1987
SEC. 3-3-31. State language.
The English language is the official language of the State of Mississippi.
SOURCES: Laws, 1987, ch. 439, eff from and after July 1, 1987.
Mammal: Land

Mammal: Land

White-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) April 12, 1974

Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes) 1997

Mammal: Water Bottlenose Dolphin, (Tursiops truncatus) April 12, 1974
Motto Virtute et armis (By valor and arms)
Natural Science Museum The Mississippi Game and Fish Commission's Mississippi Museum of Natural Science 1974
Seal Great Seal, 1798
Shell Oyster Shell (Crassostrea virginica) 1974
Song "Go, Mississippi" May 17, 1962
Words and Music by Houston Davis
Stone Petrified Wood, May 14, 1976
Toy Teddy Bear, July 1, 2002
Tree Magnolia, (Magnolia grandiflora) 1938
Waterfowl Wood Duck, (Aix Sponsa) 1974

 

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