Image: Flag of Springfield, Massachusetts

Description: Flag of the City of Springfield, Massachusetts, featuring the imagined likeliness of pioneer Samuel Chapin, possibly modelled on John Brown or railroad tycoon and congressman Chester Chapin, as depicted in the The Puritan statue. The codified standards for the flag appear at least as early as 1924 in the ordinances of the City, with the flag reported designed and adopted in 1923. The City's code Ch. 1, Article III, § 1-19 reads- The City adopts by this section a City flag in details as follows: A. Such flag shall have an inner blue field bordered with gold and set in an outer white field. B. In the center of the blue field, on both the front and reverse thereof, shall be a white shield bordered with gold. C. Arched above the shield and set in the blue field shall be a scroll in gold bearing the inscription "Springfield." D. Upon the seal shall be a likeness in gold of the St. Gaudens statue of Deacon Samuel Chapin. E. Within the shield and below on both sides flanking said likeness shall be a scroll in gold bearing the inscription "A Town May 14, 1636 O.S. Organized A City May 25, 1852," all in substantial conformity with the design executed by Charles H. Restall and filed in the office of the City Clerk.
Title: Flag of Springfield, Massachusetts
Credit: State House Flag Display, Massachusetts General Court, Beacon Hill, Boston, MA
Author: Simtropolitan, original by city engineer Chas. H. Restall
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