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image by Daniel Rentería, 2 December 2022
based on image located by Dave Fowler, 29 November 2022
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Municipal flags in Prince Edward County:
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The flag of Prince Edward County is flown outside the county office building in Farmville. It consists of the county seal on a background which is the identical color to that used in the Commonwealth of Virginia flag.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Prince_Edward_County_va_seal.jpg
Ron Lahav, 6 December 2008
County seal and flag have been updated.
https://cardinalnews.org/2022/11/28/prince-edward-countys-updated-flag-pays-tribute-to-the-birthplace-of-student-led-civil-rights-movement/
Prince Edward County’s new seal includes an image of the former Robert Russa
Moton High School, which is considered the birthplace of America’s student-led
Civil Rights revolution.
In 1951, at the height of the segregation of public
schools in Virginia, a group of students led by then-16-year-old Barbara Rose
Johns staged a walkout in protest of inadequate and unsafe school conditions.
The NAACP took up their case after the students agreed to seek an integrated
school rather than improved conditions at their Black school, setting the stage
for the landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in Brown vs. Board of
Education, which found establishing racial segregation in public schools
unconstitutional.
Last month, more than 70 years after the walkout, the
Prince Edward County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved an amendment to
add the former school – now a national landmark and home of the Moton Museum –
to the official county seal.
The original county seal, which was adopted by
the Board of Supervisors 20 years ago, was created in anticipation of the
county’s 250th anniversary in 2004. It was designed by county resident and
artist Richard C. McClintock, who is well-known for his interest in local
history and architecture. In designing the original seal, McClintock
incorporated images that depict both the past and the present of Prince Edward
County.
Two decades later, he also assisted the county with this recent
design update. At the center of the new seal is an abundant sheaf of wheat,
representing the importance of agriculture in the county’s history. The stylized
image of the wheat was borrowed from neighboring Amelia County’s seal, and thus
serves also as a reminder that Prince Edward County was formed from Amelia
County in 1754.
The domed structure directly to the left of the sheaf of
wheat is the Rotunda at Longwood University. Just below the Rotunda is the
cupola (bell tower) that rests atop the Prince Edward County Courthouse,
constructed in 1939. The former Robert Russa Moton High School is directly below
the wheat on the newly adopted seal. Constructed in 1939, Moton was the
all-black high school in Prince Edward County.
Prior to its amendment,
the county seal included the Old Prince Edward County Clerk’s Office at Worsham,
the third to serve the county and a relic of the period when the settlement of
Worsham was the county seat, which was moved to Farmville in 1874.
Dave Fowler, 29 November 2022
The image above uses a seal from the county government's website.
Daniel Rentería, 2 December 2022
image located by Ron Lahav, 6 December 2008
image by Paul Bassinson, 30 March 2019
Source:
http://co.prince-edward.va.us
Paul Bassinson, 30 March 2019
Information about the seal, according to the page giving information about
the county's seal:
The original seal was adopted by the county's Board of
Supervisors on February 12, 2002, in anticipation of the county's 250th
anniversary which occurred in 2004. The seal's designer is Richard C.
McClintock, a resident of the county.
The bundle of wheat represents the
importance of agriculture in the county's past. The wheat was borrowed from
Amelia County's seal, symbolizing how Prince Edward County was formed from
Amelia County's land.
The building with a dome is The Rotunda, home to
the third oldest public university in Virginia. Below it is a bell tower, which
rests at the top of the Prince Edward County Courthouse.
The person on
the seal is Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of York and Albany, whom the county is
named after. Above him is the Watkins Bell Tower at Hampden-Sydney College,
built in 1934, which still summons students to this day.
As for what was
changed in the seal, it is the building directly below the bundle of wheat. The
new seal appears to be colored as well, it seems. The building in the current
seal is the Robert Russa Moton High School (now a museum.) It was an all-black
high school, in which a walkout was performed in 1951 because of the school's
terrible conditions, caused by the county government being unwilling to
desegregate. Before the change, it used to feature the old Prince Edward County
Clerk's Office.
Daniel Rentería, 2 December 2022
image by Paul Bassinson, 30 March 2019
Source: http://co.prince-edward.va.us
Paul Bassinson,
30 March 2019