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Beloit, Wisconsin (U.S.)

Rock County

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[Beloit, Wisconsin flag] image located by Ron Lahav, 11 March 2008
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beloit,_Wisconsin

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Description of the flag

A ~3:5 unequal vertical tricolor of light green, light off-blue and yellow and on the center a white disc (approx. diam. half the flag height) with a large dark reddish six-paddle river-mill wheel with four spokes, the space between which is the same shade of blue and a large blue drop shape near each paddle. Overall specifications approx. 3:(2+1+2).
António Martins-Tuválkin, 24 March 2008

According to the Wisconsin State Journal article of February 17, 1957, the flag of Beloit was adopted by the city council on May 15, 1916. The flag's designer was Theodore Lyman Wright of Beloit College, and his original copy is now with the state's historical society.

Yellow is the color of ripened grains, while green is for southern Wisconsin's prairies and pastures. Blue represents the Rock River. In the center is a flaming wheel for industry. The blue in the white of the device is the dammed mill pond, around which lots of the city's industry developed. The flaming wheel is made to represent a turbine, spoke, flange, and vane.
Daniel Renterķa, 28 October 2023