Lower Atlantic: North Carolina, South Carolina

by Thomas Gibbons Aylesworth, Virginia L. Aylesworth

The great seal of the state of North Carolina was first designed in 1893 and has since been modified. As it exists today, it contains a drawing of two female figures in the center of a circle.The state seal of South Carolina, adopted in 1776, is circular. On the left side of the circle is an oval containing a drawing of a palmetto tree (symbolizing the fort on Sullivan's Island built of palmetto logs) rising from a torn-up oak tree trunk (symbolizing the British fleet that was beaten by the men in the fort on June 28, 1776.)

80 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1987