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Alabama Municipal Symbols

Flags not known

Alabaster
Albertville
Alexander City
Andalusia
Attalla
Birmingham
Boaz
Childersburg
Clanton
Daphne
Decatur
Dothan
Fairhope
Florence

Guntersville
Hueytown
Huntsville
Irondale
Jackson
Leeds
Marion
Midfield
Millbrook
Northport
Oneonta
Opp
Oxford
Pelham

Phenix City
Piedmont
Roanoke
Saraland
Satsuma
Southside
Sylacauga
Talladega
Tallassee
Troy
Trussvillem
Tuscaloosa
Valley
Vestavia Hills

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My impression of Alabama city flags, with the exception of Mobile, Montgomery, and Ozark, is that if there is a perceived need for a city flag the community simply resorts to the time-honored practice of putting the city seal on a bedsheet. I have not described the various civic and municipal seals of Alabama as separate flags. In other words, apparently all the Alabama civic seals which I have described below are in effect nascent municipal flags.
Ron Lahav, 20 March 2004

Alabaster

Website at www.cityofalabaster.com shows a city seal.
Ron Lahav, 5 February 2003

Albertville

The website at www.cityofalbertville.com shows a city seal consisting of a heraldic shield or depicting a sailing ship argent cupped in two hands of the same, the whole surmounted by the Scales of Justice or, with an illegible blazon and date azure, all surrounded by a double circle azure fimbriated doubly gules, with six blossoms (unclear) arranged crescent fashion three on each side, the words City of at the top of the inner circle and Albertville, Alabama at the bottom, both azure.
Ron Lahav, 5 February 2004

This description threw me for a loop. Albertville sits on top of the 1000 foot (330 meter) high ridge known as Sand Mountain. The nearest body of water capable of accommodating anything resembling a sailing ship is Guntersville Lake, more than 10 miles (16 km) away. So why a sailing ship?
Answer: I think what is being cupped by the two hands on the shield is