List of Georgia state symbols
This is a list of state symbols for the U.S. state of Georgia, as defined in the Official Code of Georgia Annotated or by joint resolutions of the Georgia General Assembly:
Type | Symbol | Year and references | Image |
Amphibian | American green tree frog Hyla cinerea | 2005 | |
Art Museum | Georgia Museum of Art | 1982 | |
Atlas | The Atlas of Georgia | 1985 | |
Ballet Company | Atlanta Ballet | 1973 | |
Beef Barbecue Championship Cook-off | The Hawkinsville Civitan Club's "Shoot the Bull" barbecue championship | 1997 | |
Bird | Brown Thrasher Toxostoma rufum | 1935 | |
Botanical Garden | The State Botanical Garden of Georgia | 1984 | |
Butterfly | Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Papilio glaucus | 1988 | |
Center for character education | National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force | 2005 | |
Cold water game fish | Southern Appalachian brook trout Salvelinus fontinalis | 2006 | |
Creed | Georgian's Creed | 1939 | |
Crop | Peanut | 1995 | |
Dog | "Adoptable Dog" | 2016 | |
Fish | Largemouth Bass | 1970 | |
Flag | Georgia State Flag | 2003 | |
Flower | Cherokee Rose Rosa laevigata | 1916 | |
Folk Dance | Square Dance | 1996 | |
Folk Festival | Georgia Folk Festival | 1992 | |
Folk Life Play | Swamp Gravy | 1994 | |
Fossil | Shark tooth | 1976 | |
Frontier and Southeastern Indian Interpretive Center | Funk Heritage/Bennett Center at Reinhardt College in Waleska, Georgia | 2003 | |
Fruit | Peach | 1995 | |
Game Bird | Bobwhite Quail | 1970 | |
Gem | Quartz | 1976 | |
Historic Drama | The Reach of Song presented on the Georgia Mountain Fairgrounds near Hiawassee | 1990 | |
Historical civil rights museuem | Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil Rights Museum | 2008 | |
Insect | Honeybee | 1975 | |
Marine Mammal | North Atlantic right whale Eubalaena glacialis | 1985 | |
Mineral | Staurolite | 1976 | |
Motto | "Wisdom, Justice, Moderation" | 1799 | |
Musical Theatre | Jekyll Island Musical Theatre Festival | 1993 | |
Peanut Monument | Turner County on the west side of Interstate Highway 75 within the limits of the city of Ashburn | 1998 | |
Poet Laureate | Poet Laureate of Georgia | 1925 | |
Pork Cook-off | The Dooly County Chamber of Commerce's "Slosheye Trail Big Pig Jig" | 1997 | |
‘Possum | Pogo 'Possum | 1992 | |
Prepared Food | Grits | 2002 | |
Railroad Museum | The Central of Georgia Railroad Shops Complex Savannah | 1996 | |
Reptile | Gopher tortoise Gopherus polyphemus | 1989 | |
Salt-water fish | Red drum Sciaenops ocellatus | 2006 | |
School | Plains High School, now part of the Jimmy Carter National Historic Site | 1997 | |
Seal | Great Seal of Georgia | 1798 | |
Seashell | Knobbed Whelk Busycon carica | 1987 | |
Song | "Georgia on My Mind" lyrics by Stuart Gorrell and music by Hoagy Carmichael with words by Robert Loveman. | 1979 | |
Tartan | Georgia Tartan | 1997 | |
Theater | Springer Opera House Columbus | 1971–2, | |
Tree | Southern Live Oak Quercus virginiana | 1937 | |
Transportation History Museum | Southeastern Railway Museum | 2000 | |
Vegetable | Vidalia sweet onion | 1990 | |
Waltz | "Our Georgia" | 1951 | |
Wildflower | Azalea Rhododendron sp. | 1979 |