Flag : Burgee
John Eisenmann (Designer), M.C. Lilley Company (Manufacturer)
This flag, a swallow-tailed pennant, was Ohio's original state flag. It consists of five red and white stripes and a blue trianglular area. This blue area contains seventeen white stars and a red circle inside a larger white circle. The blue triangle and points of the pennent represent Ohio's hills and valleys, and the red and white stripes represent Ohio's roads and waterways. The sum of seventeen white stars signifies Ohio's entry into the Union as its seventeenth state. Thirteen of the stars are grouped together to represent the original thirteen states in the Union, and the four additional stars are set apart to represent those states that joined the Union after its original inception. The white circle is an "O" with a red center symbolizing a buckeye
Object, No Linguistic Content, 1901
1901