| Nickname: | The County of San Diego Flag |
| County of San Diego | |
| Designer: | Estelle Secor |
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The flag of San Diego County was adopted in February 1957, although an actual specimen would not be created until September 1957. It features the San Diego County seal adopted in 1937 centered on a horizontal tricolor of red, white, and green.
In 1956, a committee consisting of John Davidson, County Purchasing Agent Verne Gehringer, and Director of Parks and Recreation Cletus Gardner, conducted a study for a design for an official flag for San Diego County. Gardner wrote in a memo to the Board on February 14, 1957 that "One of the original reasons for this [sic] designing was to have an official County flag hanging in the Board Chambers."[1]
The Board formally adopted a drawing of the flag on February 18, 1957. The County flag was designed by Estelle Secor, a former County employee in the Road Department. Secor presented a completed, hand-sewn flag based on the design to the Board of Supervisors on September 10, 1957.[1]
In 1962, the Board directed that the hand-fabricated official flag of the County by Secor, be thoroughly cleaned and permanently enclosed in a glass case in the Board Chamber. That flag is still on display in the Board Chamber at Room 310 at the County Administration Center, 1600 Pacific Highway in San Diego, California. The U.S. flag, Californian state flag, and County flag are all displayed at most County facilities.[1]
On February 18, 1957, the San Diego County Board of Supervisors adopted an official flag for the county, depicting the county's seal on a field of white, bordered at the top by a band of red, and at the bottom by a band of green, representing how San Diego County was under the control of King Charles of Spain, Mexico, the Republic of California, and the United States.[1]
The colors red, white, and green on the flag symbolize the city's Spanish and Mexican past, as the colors are featured on their respective flags.[2]
The seal depicted on the flag was designed by architect Samuel W. Hamill and was adopted in 1937, replacing a previous seal that had been in use since 1933. It depicts:
There was some confusion over the seal. Many citizens: