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![[Flag of Madison County, Tennessee]](../images/u/us-tn-md1.jpg)
image located by Daniel Rentería, 28 September 2023
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Municipal flags in Madison County:
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According to an article by The Jackson Sun, a county flag was designed by
Rosalee Gibbons of the Bemis community in Jackson. A contest was held for this
after the realization by local Telephone Pioneer chairman Jim Weaver that no
county flag existed. The judges of this contest at the time were: Emma Inman
Williams, historian of the area; Mary Duke Golden, art teacher at St. Mary's
School; and Rickey McCurry, assistant director of development at Lane College.
The flag was first presented on April 23, 1986 at the Old English Inn. Second
place winner Nitzi Melton also from Bemis, won a $100 savings bond, while
Gibbons won a $200 one.
The winning flag was designed with the shape of
Madison County, in white outlined thickly in blue on a red background. Inside of
it is a flatboat and a locomotive, both historically important to settlement of
the area the county sits on. On one side stripes enclose the words "MADISON
COUNTY", and there is also the Tennessee state seal in one corner. Proportions
3:5, though it appears to be flown with the design tilted oddly, or just hung
like a banner. In this other article, it says Emma Inman Williams's book
Historic Madison was an inspiration for the design by Gibbons for the designs in
the county's shape. In the finished version of the flag from the article, it
seems like the words "MADISON COUNTY" might have changed position, though this
image is not entirely clear.
Another
picture of the flag.
Daniel Rentería, 28 September 2023
![[Flag of Madison County, Tennessee]](../images/u/us-tn-md).gif)
image located by Paul Bassinson, 4 March 2019
Source:
http://www.worklooker.com/images/madison-county-tn.gif
Paul Bassinson, 4 March 2019
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