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Tallahassee, Florida (U.S.)

Leon County

image from NAVA flag survey, 28 October 2005

Description of the flag
Alternative flag
A third flag?
First flag

See also:

Leon County
County and Municipal flags of Florida
Florida
United States of America
External sites:
City of Tallahassee web site

Description of the Flag

The Tallahassee city flag is a white saltire on a dark blue field with the city seal in blue on a gold background overlying the center. The seal features the dome of the capitol against a sky bearing gold clouds.
Source: NAVA flag survey

An image on the Leon County website clearly shows a different flag used in Tallahassee - use is uncertain.
Valentin Poposki, 28 October 2005

The NAVA image at www.nava.org/Flag%20Design/City%20Survey%202004/city_flag_photos/Tallahassee.jpg and shown in the American Flag Survey (2004) and American City Flags (Purcell, 2003) is the blue saltire flag. The seal as shown on the flag (with state Capitol dome) is not the one used by the city government (www.talgov.com/mayor/images/cot-seal2.gif), which shows a large tree instead (image archived here).

António Martins-Tuválkin, 3 June 2008

Alternative flag

partial image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 3 June 2008

The link at www.co.leon.fl.us/admin/images/flags.jpg shows a photo of yet another Tallahassee city flag (along with the relevant national, state and county flags). This is white with a squarish logo showing local landmarks in purple line drawings above the the city name written in light greenish blue sans/serif capitals; thin golden border all (?) around the edge (not a fringe, cp. w/ the other flags on the photo). The image here is provisional, showing the visible bits from this photo - it may trigger memories.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 3 June 2008

A third flag?

image located by Valentin Poposki, 15 June 2011

Yet another, third version of the flag of the City of Tallahassee, Florida: www.flickr.com/photos/ferret111/5488879647. Even the guy who took the picture, probably a local resident, is wondering what's going on?
Valentin Poposki, 15 June 2011

When one looks at the official City of Tallahassee official website (www.talgov.com), they feature a logo (www.tallahasseedowntown.com/images/logo_tallahassee.jpg) on their home, which is a star, exactly like the one you've pointed out in the Flickr picture. So I guess they have indeed changed the flag.
Esteban Rivera, 15 June 2011

First flag

image located by Valentin Poposki, 13 December 2011

The first flag of the City of Tallahassee, Florida is shown on a postcard presented in a book Postcard History Series - Tallahassee" from Lynn M. Homan and Thomas Reilly. It can be seen in Google Books: books.google.com, on page 9. Unfortunately, the picture is black and white. The only information is that the flag was adopted in 1915.
Valentin Poposki, 13 March 2010