Question: What four symbols are on the Florida State Seal?
Answer: “The sun’s rays, a cocoa tree, a steamboat, and an Indian female.”
The Florida Legislature passed and sent to Governor Harrison Reed a Joint Resolution on August 6, 1868, specifying “That a Seal of the size of the American silver dollar, having in the center thereof a view of the sun’s rays over a high land in the distance, a cocoa tree, a steamboat on water, and an Indian female scattering flowers in the foreground, encircled by the words, ‘Great Seal of the State of Florida: In God We Trust,’ be and the same is hereby adopted as the Great Seal of the State of Florida.” “In God We Trust” was adopted as the official state motto in the 2006 Florida Legislative Session.
