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A white flag with the town seal showing a carriage and the town name and date
and incorporation around it in red. Merrimac is in Essex County.
Dov Gutterman, 8 November 2002
image by Masao Okazaki, 8 July 2019
Newspaper article about new flag:
https://www.newburyportnews.com/news/local_news/new-flag-not-flying-with-all-merrimac-officials/article_b677f325-1edd-5f6f-98b7-13643d9d024d.html
New flag not flying with all Merrimac officials
By Elizabeth Rose
Correspondent Apr 16, 2015
The town flag committee presented selectmen
with the final design for a new town flag on Monday and received some pushback
from the board. Earl Baumgardner said he disagreed with the need for a new flag
and opposed the expenditure of any town funds for the project. Allan Jarvis,
flag committee chairman, presented the committee’s timeline for designing a new
town flag. Jarvis said the initial idea came from a visit to the Massachusetts
Statehouse. When a few townspeople viewed the current flag representing
Merrimac, they found it to be worn and faded. They decided to initiate a new
design.
The committee went through 12 to 15 iterations before settling on
the flag they presented on Monday. It is a 3-by-5-foot nylon flag with a white
background cut through diagonally with a blue chevron [sic]. In the center is
the black town seal of the traditional buggy with the words “Town of Merrimac,
Incorporated 1876” in gold lettering and outlined in black. The flag has a red
border.
The red, white and blue colors were selected as a reference to
the Revolutionary War because Merrimac was incorporated 100 years later. They
chose the blue chevron running diagonally through the white field to represent
the Merrimack River. The committee wanted to “commemorate” the river that is key
to the economic past and current recreation of the town.
Masao Okazaki,
6 July 2019
image located by Paul Bassinson, 3 May 2020
Source:
http://www.merrimac01860.info/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=28
Paul Bassinson, 3 May 2020