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image by Masao Okazaki, 18 August 2021
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I learned about this flag from this article in the Journal of the Great
Waters Association of Vexillology (Vol. XV, No. 2, Issue 30) from December 2010:
https://gwav.tripod.com/issue_30.htm
The flag is described thus:
Berea, Ohio, a southwestern suburb of Cleveland, is known as the “Grindstone
City,” recalling the early quarries of sandstone from which grindstones were
manufactured to sharpen tools in home, farm, and industry. The grindstone is a
central device in blue outline on the city’s flag, which has three horizontal
stripes of blue, white, blue on a burgee-shaped flag. The grindstone is
surrounded by a narrow blue ring, and that in turn is surrounded by a wider
white ring fimbriated in blue, also forming the city’s seal. Curved around the
white ring, from about 8 o’clock to 4 o’clock, are the words BEREA . OHIO . THE
GRINDSTONE CITY. Centered across the bottom on a white heraldic ribbon is the
inscription, FOUNDED 1836, in blue.
The flag was developed as a result of
the city’s Sesquicentennial. A contest was held among the city’s school
children. David Victor of Riveredge (Elementary) School designed the seal, which
Elizabeth Wetter, of Adalbert (Elementary) School, put on her design of the
flag. Judges included Henrietta Echard and former art teachers Jo Pusti and Ted
Theodore. The flag was adopted on July 7, 1986.
I downloaded the seal (https://arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-advancelocal.s3.amazonaws.com/public/DHMEMUWL4VEVJHQPMYYHOJHVX4.png)
and my drawing of the flag.
Here's a Facebook photo showing the seal and
the flag:
https://www.facebook.com/BereaOH/photos/1071437496362998
Masao Okazaki, 18 August 2021
image located by Paul Bassinson, 9 November 2019
Source:
https://www.cityofberea.org/
Paul Bassinson, 9 November 2019
Facebook photos show
an alternate version of the flag:
2023:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php
2021:
https://www.facebook.com/BereaOH/photos
However, the other flag is
still being used, as seen in this video of a June 2024 city council meeting:
https://www.facebook.com/BereaOH/videos
Masao Okazaki, 9 July
2024