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image by Masao Okazaki, 23 March 2024
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St. Matthews accepted a city flag on November 19, 1960. The design was
created by Stephanie Baldyga, then-13-year-old at Our Lady of Lourdes School,
who won a flag design contest sponsored by the St. Matthews Elks Lodge.
The flag contains symbols of the history of St. Matthews. It depicts a
buckskin-clad pioneer for the explorers who first settled in the area; a
hoe-wielding farmer and potato for St. Matthews's heritage as a producer and
marketer of potatoes and other vegetables; a stagecoach for coach stops as the
area's first businesses; a fighting cock as it was a sport popular in early St.
Matthews; and finally, a church, showing the St. Matthews Episcopal Church, the
city's namesake. Blue and gold are used as they are the colors of the
Commonwealth of Kentucky. Green represents fertility of the area's soil. Above
the emblem is the motto "FORWARD" and below the emblem is the city's name.
Source:
https://www.stmatthewsky.gov/our-history/
Daniel
Rentería, 4 March 2024
Photographs of a small desk flag:
https://www.stmatthewsky.gov/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/St-Matthews-Flag.jpg
https://www.stmatthewsky.gov/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/city-flag-012.jpg
Partial views of a full-sized flag:
https://www.stmatthewsky.gov/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/council.jpg
https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/gray/DU2K7CLUMVEETJYXJGTA4O5NW4.bmp
