State of Utah Map Postcard

The fifth map postcard I have is that of Utah.

Utah Map Postcard
(PH Wish from Judy Andreason)

The state symbols of Utah:

* State animal - Rocky Mountain Elk
* State bird - California Seagull
* State cooking pot - Dutch Oven
* State emblem - Beehive
* State fish - Bonneville Cutthroat Trout
* State flower - Sego Lily
* State folk dance - Square Dance
* State fossil - Allosaurus
* State fruit - Cherry
* State gem - Topaz
* State grass - Indian Rice Grass
* State insect - Honey Bee
* State mineral - Copper
* State motto - "Industry"
* State rock - Coal
* State song - "Utah, This Is The Place"
* State hymn - "Utah We Love Thee"
* State star - Dubhe
* State tree - Blue Spruce
* State vegetable - Spanish Sweet Onion
* State historic vegetable - Sugar Beet

We also have a US States fact cards with fun facts that Utah is the site of the first department store in the US and of the first transcontinental railway system (1869).

SOURCE:
Utah State Symbols

State of Missouri Map Postcard

The fourth map postcard I have is that of Missouri.

Missouri Map Postcard
(PH Wish from Judy Andreason)

The state symbols of Missouri:

* State American folk dance: Square dance
* State animal: Missouri mule
* State bird: Bluebird
* State floral emblem: White hawthorn
* State fossil: Crinoid
* State insect: Honeybee
* State mineral: Galena
* State musical instrument: Fiddle
* State rock: Mozarkite
* State tree: Flowering Dogwood, Cornus Florida L.
* State tree nut: Eastern black walnut
* State aquatic animal: Paddlefish
* State fish: Channel catfish
* State song: "Missouri Waltz"
* State horse: Missouri fox trotting horse
* State grape: Norton/Cynthiana grape, Vitis Aestivalis
* State dinosaur: Hypsibema missouriense
* State amphibian: American Bullfrog, Rana catesbeiana

We also have a US States fact cards with fun facts that Missouri was the starting point for the Pony Express and for the Lewis and Clark expedition (1804), and the first slave state to free slaves (1865).

SOURCE:
State Symbols of Missouri

State of Iowa Map Postcard

The third map postcard I have is that of Iowa.

Iowa Map Postcard
(PH Wish from Laura Guhse)

The state symbols of Iowa::

* State bird: Eastern Goldfinch
* State fish: Channel catfish
* State flower: Wild Rose
* State fossil: Crinoid (proposed)
* State grass: Bluebunch wheatgrass
* State song: "The Song of Iowa"
* State tree: Oak
* State colors :Red, white, and blue (in state flag)
* State rock: Geode

We also have a US States fact cards with fun facts that Iowa is the only state that starts with two vowels and the only state bordered on both east and west by water (the Mississippi River on the east, the Missouri River on the west)

SOURCES:
Iowa State Symbols
Iowa Wikipedia Entry

State of Connecticut Map Postcard

The second map postcard I have is that of Connecticut.

Connecticut Map Postcard
(PH Wish from Denise Gertz)

The state symbols of Connecticut:

* State bird: Robin
* State shellfish: Eastern Oyster
* State flower: Mountain Laurel
* State fossil: Eubrontes Giganteus
* State mineral: Garnet
* State insect: Praying Mantis, Mantis Religiosa
* State animal: the Sperm Whale, Physeter Catodon
* State song: "Yankee Doodle"
* State tree: White Oak
* State ship: USS Nautilus
* State hero: Nathan Hale
* State composer: Charles Edward Ives
* State heroine: Prudence Crandall

We also have a US States fact cards with fun facts that Connecticut is the birthplace of mass production manufacturing (1808), and home of the oldest public library in the US, Scoville Memorial Library (1771) and the oldest newspaper, Hartford Courant (first printed in 1764).

SOURCE:
About Connecticut

State of Alaska Map Postcard

Time for my map cards of some US states, all cards courtesy of my co-members from Postcard Heaven. First in my collection is that of Alaska.

Alaska Map Postcard
(PH Wish from Sarah Konichek)

The state symbols of Alaska::

* State bird: Willow Ptarmigan
* State fish: King Salmon
* State flower: wild/native Forget-Me-Not
* State fossil: Woolly Mammoth
* State gem: Jade
* State insect: Four-spot skimmer dragonfly
* State land mammal: Moose
* State marine mammal: Bowhead Whale
* State mineral: Gold
* State song: "Alaska's Flag"
* State sport: Dog Mushing
* State tree: Sitka Spruce

We also have a US States fact cards with a fun fact that Alaska, 49th state, was called "Seward's Folly" because many people thought Secretary of State William Seward wasted money purchasing it (he gave Russia $7.2 million in 1867).

SOURCE:
Alaska Office of Economic Development