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Amsterdam, New York (U.S.)

Montgomery County

image located by Steven Shumaker, 16 February 2007
Source: www.gettysburgflag.com

The flag
Seal

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The flag

The flag as shown at www.gettysburgflag.com/images/Portfolio/City%20%26%20Town/AmsterdamWindmil2.JPG is yellow with a narrow vertical purple fly stripe. Toward the hoist is a large windmill, and the words One Community Many Cultures. Written downwards on the purple stripe is AMSTERDAM and at the bottom NY.

Paul Bassinson, 13 October 2019

According to the Daily Gazette, the flag of Amsterdam was designed by (at the time) an eighth grader named Jennifer Kielbasa in 2000. Her design was selected out of more than 400 student designs submitted as a part of the city's flag design contest, receiving $100 for designing the flag. The flag contest was headed by Lynette Du Rose, the city's community development and grants assistant.

The designer says she uses the windmill as inspiration from the city's seal. The flag has been simplified from the original design by Kielbasa, as this design had flags of many countries and Puerto Rico on the turbines. The text above the windmill originally also had "Many" above the windmill. "NY" was also in a box of a different color.
Daniel Rentería, 8 February 2024

Seal

image located by Paul Bassinson, 13 October 2019

Source: http://www.amsterdamny.gov/
Paul Bassinson, 13 October 2019