State Flower |
Dogwood Blossom |
State Tree |
Dogwood |
State Bird |
Cardinal |
State Dog |
American Foxhound |
State Fish (Freshwater) |
Brook Trout |
State Fish (Saltwater) |
Striped Bass |
State Shell |
Oyster |
State Folk Dance |
Square Dance |
State Insect |
Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly |
State Fossil |
Chesapacten Jeffersonius |
State Motto |
Sic Semper Tyrannis (Thus Always to Tyrants) |
State Bat |
Virginia Big Eared Bat |
State Boat |
Chesapeake Bay Deadrise |
State Beverage |
Milk |
State Rock |
Nelsonite |
State Snake |
Eastern Garter Snake |
State Artisan Center |
Virginia Artisans Center, located in the City of Waynesboro |
State Blue Ridge Folklore State Center |
Blue Ridge Institute located in the village of Ferrum |
State Cabin Capital of Virginia |
Page County |
State Coal Miners' Memorial |
The Richlands Coal Miners' Memorial located in Tazewell County |
State Covered Bridge Capital of the Commonwealth |
Patrick County |
State Covered Bridge Festival |
Virginia Covered Bridge Festival held in Patrick County |
State Flag of Remembrance of September 11, 2001 |
Freedom Flag, designed by a Virginian, as the flag of remembrance of September 11, 2001 |
State Fleet |
Replicas of the three ships, Susan Constant, Godspeed, and Discovery, which comprised the Commonwealth's founding fleet that brought the first permanent English settlers to Jamestown in 1607, and which are exhibited at the Jamestown Settlement in Williamsburg |
State Gold Mining Interpretive Center |
Monroe Park, located in the County of Fauquier |
State Insect |
Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly (Papilio glaucus Linne) |
State Maple Festival |
The Highland County Maple Festival |
State Motor Sports Museum |
Wood Brothers Racing Museum and Virginia Motor Sports Hall of Fame, located in Patrick County |
State Opry |
The Virginia Opry |
State Outdoor Drama |
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine Outdoor Drama, adapted for the stage by Clara Lou Kelly and performed in the Town of Big Stone Gap |
State Outdoor Drama, Historical |
The Long Way Home based on the life of Mary Draper Ingles, adapted for the stage by Earl Hobson Smith, and performed in the City of Radford |
State Salamander |
Red Salamander (Pseudotriton ruber) |
State Shakespeare Festival |
The Virginia Shakespeare Festival held in the City of Williamsburg |
State Song Emeritus |
Carry Me Back to Old Virginny, by James A. Bland, as set out in the House Joint Resolution 10, adopted by the General Assembly of Virginia at the Session of 1940 |
State Song (Popular) |
Sweet Virginia Breeze, by Robbin Thompson and Steve Bassett |
State Song (Traditional) |
Our Great Virginia, lyrics by Mike Greenly and arranged by Jim Papoulis with music from the original American folk song "Oh Shenandoah." |
State Spirit |
George Washington's rye whiskey produced at Mount Vernon, Virginia |
State Sports Hall of Fame |
Virginia Sports Hall of Fame, located in the City of Portsmouth |
State Television Series |
Song of the Mountains |
State Tree |
American Dogwood (Cornus florida) |
State War Memorial Museum |
Virginia War Museum, (formerly known as the War Memorial Museum of Virginia), located in the City of Newport News |