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Designation Symbol / Emblem Adopted
American Folk Dance Square Dance 1995
Automobile Museum The Tupelo Auto Museum, Inc. 2003
Beverage Milk 1984
Bird Mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos) 1944
Butterfly Spicebush Swallowtail (Battus philenor) 1991
Fish Largemouth or Black Bass (Micropterus salmoides) 1974
Flag Find out more. CNN News, April 18, 2001 1894
Flower Magnolia (Magnolia grandiflora) 1952
Fossil Prehistoric Whale (Basilosaurus cetoides & Zygorhiza kochii) 1981
Grand Opera House Grand Opera House of Meridian 1993
Great Seal Find out more. 1798
Historical Industrial Museum The Mississippi Industrial Heritage Museum, Inc. 2004
Insect Honeybee (Apis mellifera) 1980
Language English 1987
Land Mammal White-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus)
Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes)		 1974
1997
Natural Science Museum The Mississippi Game and Fish Commission's Mississippi Museum of Natural Science 1974
Reptile American Alligator (Alligator Mississippiensis) Effective July 1, 2005
Shell Oyster Shell (Crassostrea virginica) 1974
Soil Natchez silt loam 2003
Song "Go, Mississippi", words and music by William Houston Davis 1962
Stone Petrified Wood 1976
Toy Teddy Bear 2002
Tree Magnolia (Magnolia grandiflora) 1938
Waterfowl Wood Duck (Aix sponsa) 1974
Water Mammal Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) 1974
Wildflower Coreopsis 1991
How a Bill Becomes Law in Mississippi

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