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

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