List of Georgia state symbols

Location of the state of Georgia in the United States of America

This is a list of state symbols for the U.S. state of Georgia, as defined in the Official Code of Georgia Annotated or by joint resolutions of the Georgia General Assembly:

The Flag of Georgia

Type	Symbol	Year and references	Image
Amphibian	American green tree frog Hyla cinerea	2005[1][2]
Art Museum	Georgia Museum of Art	1982[3]
Atlas	The Atlas of Georgia	1985[4]
Ballet Company	Atlanta Ballet	1973[5]
Beef Barbecue Championship Cook-off	The Hawkinsville Civitan Club's "Shoot the Bull" barbecue championship	1997[6][7]
Bird	Brown Thrasher Toxostoma rufum	1935 (1970)[note 1][8][9]
Botanical Garden	The State Botanical Garden of Georgia	1984[10]
Butterfly	Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Papilio glaucus	1988[11][12]
Center for character education	National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force	2005[13][14]
Cold water game fish	Southern Appalachian brook trout Salvelinus fontinalis	2006[15][16]
Creed	Georgian's Creed	1939[17][18]
Crop	Peanut	1995[19][20]
Dog	"Adoptable Dog"	2016[21][22]
Fish	Largemouth Bass	1970[23][24]
Flag	Georgia State Flag	2003[25]
Flower	Cherokee Rose Rosa laevigata	1916[26][27]
Folk Dance	Square Dance	1996[28][29]
Folk Festival	Georgia Folk Festival	1992[30][31]
Folk Life Play	Swamp Gravy	1994[32][33]
Fossil	Shark tooth	1976[34][35]
Frontier and Southeastern Indian Interpretive Center	Funk Heritage/Bennett Center at Reinhardt College in Waleska, Georgia	2003[36][14]
Fruit	Peach	1995[37][38]
Game Bird	Bobwhite Quail	1970[39][40]
Gem	Quartz	1976[41][42]
Historic Drama	The Reach of Song presented on the Georgia Mountain Fairgrounds near Hiawassee	1990[43][44]
Historical civil rights museum	Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil Rights Museum	2008[45][46]
Insect	Honeybee	1975[47][48]
Marine Mammal	North Atlantic right whale Eubalaena glacialis	1985[49][50]
Mineral	Staurolite	1976[51][52]
Motto	"Wisdom, Justice, Moderation"	1799[53][note 2]
Musical Theatre	Jekyll Island Musical Theatre Festival	1993[54][55]
Nut	Pecan	2021[56]
Peanut Monument	Turner County on the west side of Interstate Highway 75 within the limits of the city of Ashburn	1998[19][57]
Poet Laureate	Poet Laureate of Georgia	1925[58][59][60]
Pork Cook-off	The Dooly County Chamber of Commerce's "Slosheye Trail Big Pig Jig"	1997[6][61]
‘Possum	Pogo 'Possum	1992[62][63]
Prepared Food	Grits	2002[64][65]
Railroad Museum	The Central of Georgia Railroad Shops Complex Savannah	1996[66][67]
Reptile	Gopher tortoise Gopherus polyphemus	1989[68][69]
Salt-water fish	Red drum Sciaenops ocellatus	2006[70][71]
School	Plains High School, now part of the Jimmy Carter National Historic Site	1997[72][73][74]
Seal	Great Seal of Georgia	1798 (1914)[note 3][75]
Seashell	Knobbed Whelk Busycon carica	1987[76][77]
Song	"Georgia on My Mind" lyrics by Stuart Gorrell and music by Hoagy Carmichael with words by Robert Loveman.[note 4][78][79]	1979[80]
Tartan	Georgia Tartan	1997[81][82]
Theater	Springer Opera House Columbus	1971–2, (1992)[note 5][83][84]
Tree	Southern Live Oak Quercus virginiana	1937[85][86]
Transportation History Museum	Southeastern Railway Museum	2000[87][88]
Vegetable	Vidalia sweet onion	1990[89][90]
Waltz	"Our Georgia"	1951[91][92]
Wildflower	Azalea Rhododendron sp.	1979[93][94]

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External links[]

• State Symbols page from the Georgia Secretary of State
• State Symbols page from the Digital Library of Georgia