page_title: Flag of Taunton, Massachusetts
section_title: Present day
hierarchical_section_title: Flag of Taunton, Massachusetts / Present day
caption_attribution_description: English: The flag of Taunton flies alongside the flag of the United States over Taunton Green in September 2016.
context_page_description: The flag of Taunton, Massachusetts, also known as the Taunton Flag and the Liberty and Union Flag, is the city flag of Taunton, Massachusetts, United States. The flag was first adopted in 1774 and has since been adopted as the flag of Taunton. It consists of a red ensign with the flag of Great Britain in canton defaced with the words "Liberty and Union" across the lower portion.
context_section_description: The current flag was adopted as the city flag of Taunton by a resolution of the Taunton City Council on October 19, 1974. It is not known what the original flag looked like; the current design is based on an incomplete contemporary newspaper description.
  The flag is flown in Taunton Green Historic District alongside the flag of the United States. It also flies in front of Taunton City Hall and other city buildings, as well as many private homes.
  It was also symbolically raised outside the Old Colony History Museum in Taunton on the city's 350th anniversary.
  Each autumn, Taunton holds a Liberty and Union Festival to commemorate the events of October 1774, and to celebrate the Taunton Flag. 
  In addition to being the official flag of Taunton, Massachusetts, the Taunton flag is also the official flag of Weymouth, New Jersey. Their reasoning for using the flag is that "its historical period is correct, it keeps alive an ancestor to our Stars and Stripes, and because it is always in production and therefore, cheap". Like in Taunton it can be seen flying outside Weymouth's town hall.
caption: The flag of Taunton flies beneath the flag of the United States over Taunton Green in September 2016.
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