State | Date of Statehood | Image | Significance |
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DELAWARE | 1787 | Portrait of Caesar Rodney He cast the deciding vote for the resolution of independence and signed the Declaration of Independence | |
PENNSYLVANIA | 1787 | Commonwealth the statue atop the state capitol building | |
NEW JERSEY | 1787 | Washington Crossing the Delaware Emmanuel Leutze Painting | |
GEORGIA | 1788 | The Live Oak-State Tree Georgia Peach-State Fruit | |
CONNECTICUT | 1788 | In 1687 King James II revoked the state's charter and a colonist hid it in the hollow of The Charter Oak | |
MASSACHUSETTS | 1788 | The Minuteman a statue commemorating Revolutionary war soldiers | |
MARYLAND | 1788 | Dome of the Maryland State House Built in 1772 and still used by the state legislature | |
SOUTH CAROLINA | 1788 | The Yellow Jessamine-State Flower The Palmetto-State Tree The Carolina Wren-State Bird | |
NEW HAMPSHIRE | 1788 | Old Man of the Mountain The state emblem A rock formation on Cannon Mountain which looked like an old man's face | |
VIRGINIA | 1788 | The three ships that in 1607 brought the first settlers to Jamestown | |
NEW YORK | 1788 | The Statue of Liberty | |
NORTH CAROLINA | 1789 | The Wright Brothers first airplane flight at Kitty Hawk | |
RHODE ISLAND | 1790 | A sailboat on Narragansett Bay | |
VERMONT | 1791 | A man tapping a Maple Tree with Camel's Hump Mountain in the background | |
KENTUCKY | 1792 | A thoroughbred horse representing horse-racing | |
TENNESSEE | 1796 | A fiddle (Appalachian Music) A trumpet (The Blues) and a guitar (country) | |
0HIO | 1803 | Birthplace of Aviation Wright Brothers-Neil Armstrong-John Glenn from Ohio | |
LOUISIANA | 1812 | Outline of Louisiana Purchase state bird (Pelican) a Trumpet (Jazz) | |
INDIANA | 1816 | A race car representing home of Indianapolis 500 | |
MISSISSIPPI | 1817 | The state flower The Magnolia | |
ILLINOIS | 1818 | Abraham Lincoln grew up and practiced law in the state | |
ALABAMA | 1819 | A portrait of Helen Keller reading a braille book | |
MAINE | 1820 | Pemaquid Point Lighthouse guiding a ship into harbor | |
MISSOURI | 1821 | Lewis and Clark returning in a riverboat going through the Gateway Arch | |
ARKANSAS | 1836 | Rice stalks a diamond and ducks major industries of the state | |
MICHIGAN | 1837 | A map of the state with the Great Lakes highlighted | |
FLORIDA | 1845 | On the left a Spanish galleon and on the right the space shuttle | |
TEXAS | 1845 | A map of Texas with a large star referring to the Lone Star State | |
IOWA | 1846 | A rendering of the painting Arbor Day by artist Grant Wood | |
WISCONSIN | 1848 | A wheel of cheese an ear of corn and a cow | |
CALIFORNIA | 1850 | John Muir gazes at Yosemite's Half Dome while a condor soars overhead | |
MINNESOTA | 1858 | A lake representing Land of 10000 Lakes with a loon swimming | |
OREGON | 1859 | A view of the Nation's deepest lake Crater Lake and Wizard Island | |
KANSAS | 1861 | A buffalo (state animal) and a sunflower (state flower) | |
WEST VIRGINIA | 1863 | 3030-ft long 876-ft high New River Gorge Bridge | |
NEVADA | 1864 | Three mustangs running free home to half the nations wild horses | |
NEBRASKA | 1967 | A family in a covered wagon passing by Chimney Rock on the Oregon Trail | |
COLORADO | 1876 | The Rocky Mountains | |
NORTH DAKOTA | 1889 | Two bison representing the nature preserve in the area | |
SOUTH DAKOTA | 1889 | Mount Rushmore and a ring-necked pheasant | |
MONTANA | 1889 | A bison skull a western icon and symbol of Native-American heritage | |
WASHINGTON | 1889 | A leaping salmon and Mount Rainier | |
IDAHO | 1890 | The Peregrine Falcon once endangered but now abundant | |
WYOMING | 1890 | A bucking horse and rider symbolizing the wild west | |
UTAH | 1896 | Two trains and a railroad spike symbolizing completion of the transcontinental railroad | |
OKLAHOMA | 1907 | The scissortail flycatcher the state bird | |
NEW MEXICO | 1912 | A topographical map of the state with the Pueblo symbol Zia | |
ARIZONA | 1912 | The Grand Canyon and a saguaro cactus | |
ALASKA | 1959 | A grizzly bear eating a salmon | |
HAWAII | 1959 | A portrait of the 19th century king Kamehameha I who united the islands | |
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