Maine voters will decide on whether to change the design of the state flag on Nov. 5, 2024. This is the first certified statewide measure for the Maine 2024 ballot.
The ballot measure would replace the current Maine state flag, which features the state’s coat of arms, with the first official state flag called the Pine Tree Flag, which features a green pine tree and the North Star. The first flag was first adopted on March 21, 1901, and was replaced with the current state flag in Feb. 1909.
A modernized take of the previous flag of Maine was designed by the Maine Flag Company. Bethany Field, the co-owner of the Maine Flag Company, said that there are many variations of the Pine Tree Flag that have been created and that her company bases its modernized design on the 1939 Maine Merchant and Marine flag. Field said, “We don’t really have an original flag from 1901. That artifact doesn’t exist.”
