Did you know that Cecil County has its own flag?
Twenty years after its creation, our county finally had its own flag. On October 9, 1694 colonial Cecil County was assigned the crimson flag by Governor Francis Nicholson. The current county flag still bears a stripe of crimson along with the far more recent county seal.
The flag is red and white, divided vertically, with the red next to the hoist, and the white portion in the fly. On the white portion is a representation of the county seal.
According to the Maryland State Archive, the flag was designed by B. B. Martin, of Elkton, and was adopted as the winning entry in a 1998 county-wide contest sponsored by the Cecil County Chamber of Commerce.
