Type |
Symbol |
Year and references |
Image |
Amphibian |
American green tree frog Hyla cinerea |
2005[1][2] |
|
Art museum |
Georgia Museum of Art |
1982[3] |
|
Atlas |
The Atlas of Georgia |
1985[4] |
|
Ballet company |
Atlanta Ballet |
1973[5] |
|
Beef barbecue championship Cook-off |
The Hawkinsville Civitan Club's "Shoot the Bull" barbecue championship |
1997[6][7] |
|
Bird |
Brown thrasher Toxostoma rufum |
1935 (1970)[note 1][8][9] |
|
Botanical garden |
State Botanical Garden of Georgia |
1984[10] |
|
Butterfly |
Eastern tiger swallowtail Papilio glaucus |
1988[11][12] |
|
Center for character education |
National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force |
2005[13][14] |
|
Cold water game fish |
Southern Appalachian brook trout Salvelinus fontinalis |
2006[15][16] |
|
Creed |
Georgian's Creed |
1939[17][18] |
|
Crop |
Peanut |
1995[19][20] |
|
Dog |
"Adoptable Dog" |
2016[21][22] |
|
Fish |
Largemouth bass |
1970[23][24] |
|
Flag |
Georgia flag |
2003[25] |
|
Flower |
Cherokee rose Rosa laevigata |
1916[26][27] |
|
Folk dance |
Square dance |
1996[28][29] |
|
Folk festival |
Georgia Folk Festival |
1992[30][31] |
|
Folk life play |
Swamp Gravy |
1994[32][33] |
|
Fossil |
Shark tooth |
1976[34][35] |
|
Frontier and southeastern Indian interpretive center |
Funk Heritage Center |
2003[36][14] |
|
Fruit |
Peach |
1995[37][38] |
|
Game bird |
Bobwhite quail |
1970[39][40] |
|
Gem |
Quartz |
1976[41][42] |
|
Historic drama |
The Reach of Song, a play about mountain writer Byron Herbert Reece |
1990[43][44] |
|
Historical civil rights museum |
Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil Rights Museum |
2008[45][46] |
|
Insect |
Honeybee |
1975[47][48] |
|
Marine mammal |
North Atlantic right whale Eubalaena glacialis |
1985[49][50] |
|
Mineral |
Staurolite |
1976[51][52] |
|
Motto |
"Wisdom, Justice, Moderation" |
1799[53][note 2] |
|
Musical theater |
Jekyll Island Musical Theatre Festival |
1993[54][55] |
|
Nut |
Pecan |
2021[56] |
|
Peanut monument |
Turner County on the west side of Interstate Highway 75 within the limits of the city of Ashburn |
1998[19][57] |
|
Poet Laureate |
Poet Laureate of Georgia |
1925[58][59][60] |
|
Pork cook-off |
The Dooly County Chamber of Commerce's "Slosheye Trail Big Pig Jig" |
1997[6][61] |
|
'Possum |
Pogo 'Possum
|
1992[62][63] |
|
Prepared food |
Grits |
2002[64][65] |
|
Railroad museum |
The Central of Georgia Railroad Shops Complex Savannah |
1996[66][67] |
|
Reptile |
Gopher tortoise Gopherus polyphemus |
1989[68][69] |
|
Salt-water fish |
Red drum Sciaenops ocellatus |
2006[70][71] |
|
School |
Plains High School, now part of the Jimmy Carter National Historic Site |
1997[72][73][74] |
|
Seal |
Great Seal of Georgia |
1798 (1914)[note 3][75] |
|
Seashell |
Knobbed whelk Busycon carica |
1987[76][77] |
|
Song |
"Georgia on My Mind" lyrics by Stuart Gorrell and music by Hoagy Carmichael with words by Robert Loveman.[note 4][78][79] |
1979[80] |
|
Tartan |
Georgia Tartan |
1997[81][82] |
|
Theater |
Springer Opera House Columbus |
1971–2, (1992)[note 5][83][84] |
|
Tree |
Southern live oak Quercus virginiana |
1937[85][86] |
|
Transportation history museum |
Southeastern Railway Museum |
2000[87][88] |
|
Vegetable |
Vidalia sweet onion |
1990[89][90] |
|
Waltz |
"Our Georgia" |
1951[91][92] |
|
Wildflower |
Azalea Rhododendron sp. |
1979[93][94] |
|