Answer: Republic Of Texas Flag
The Lone Star Flag of Texas came to be in a little town called Montgomery.
- When Santana surrendered Texas gained its independence. To symbolize this independence, a new flag was created in 1839 and its design was approved.
- Dr. Charles Bellinger Stewart is the creator of this symbolic flag that still waves today. But who was Dr. Stewart? He was a Montgomery postmaster and pharmacist and the first Secretary of State for the Republic of Texas.
- Dr. Stewart was appointed by Republic of Texas President Mirabeau B. Lamar to a committee with Thomas Barnett and Richard Ellis to create an official flag for the Republic.
- Dr. Stewart sketched on vellum three rectangles of equal size, one vertical and the others horizontal. In the vertical rectangle he placed a lone star.
- The original drawing was not colored but Dr. Stewart labeled the rectangles blue, white and red. He picked these colors strategically, knowing how symbolic they were. These red whit and blue colors signify loyalty, purity and bravery.
- Stewart drew both the design of the flag and the Republic Seal on the same piece of vellum (the replica is pictured below). The N.H. Davis Pioneer Complex & Museum in Montgomery has a replica of this vellum on display. The original is housed at the Texas State Archives.
- President Lamar approved both on January 25, 1839. When Texas became a state in 1845, the seal was modified and adopted as the state seal, along with the adoption of the Lone Star Flag as the state flag.
- The House of Representatives of the 75th Texas Legislature adopted House Resolution #1123, which was then signed by then Governor George Bush on May 30, 1997, proclaiming Montgomery County as Birthplace of the Lone Star Flag.
Explanation of the clue!!!
Through the clue given, and the history that we have already been taught in school, I realized that what we were looking for was the Texas Flag created by Dr. Stewart and signed or approved by Lamar. They believe that the flag was signed upside down due to the original not having any color to it and having other things to sign at the same time. It was an accident.