This was the official Vermont state flag for more than 80 years. The coat of arms was unique, but the stars and stripes were more than a bit derivative. In 1919, the state Legislature decided it ...

There was a problem with the state flag. “The present one,” one journalist wrote in March of 1923, “is practically the United States flag with the Vermont coat of arms inserted in the blue field,” the ...

1923 -- the state of Vermont adopted the current version of the state flag. The royal blue and coat of arms are typically recognizable to Vermonters, but it hasn’t always looked that way.

BARRE — Vermont’s state flag turns 100 on Thursday. According to the Vermont Historical Society, the current state flag — the state’s coat of arms on a blue background — was first adopted on June 1, ...