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 History Of The Bayonne
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 The city's colors are blue, white
and red. The city's flag is most easily described as being the
flag of France with our city seal emblazoned in the middle
(white) section which were Dutch colors at the time, and would
make sense to use them because of Bayonne's early Dutch
settlers. Yet, during the time when the city's flag design was
being selected, there was a strong relationship between
Bayonne, NJ and Bayonne, France. Perhaps that's why the red, white and blue, national US,
Dutch and French colors, appear exactly as the French
tricolor.
Up to 1914, Bayonne had no municipal flag. Accordingly Mayor
M.T. Cronin, wishing to correct the oversight, requested Mr.
T.F. Parker, then Chairman of the Library Board, to furnish
some suitable flag designs for the city. Mr. Parker submitted
one, a tricolor, red, white, and blue, with a sailing vessel
on a white space. William Mann presented a design showing a
white flag with a deep blue border converging on each corner.
In the center a Schooner-rigged sailing craft, emblematic of
the fishing and oyster industry that once flourished in the
waters that ebbed and flowed along the shores of our city. The
tricolor design by Mr. Parker was adopted and so became the
flag of the City of Bayonne.
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