Indiana

To commemorate the state's centennial in 1916, the Indiana General Assembly resolved to adopt a new state flag. At the request of the General Assembly a contest was sponsored by the Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution to design a new Indiana state flag. As an incentive to increase submissions the winner would receive a one hundred dollar prize. More than two hundred proposals were received and examined. The entry created by Paul Hadley of Mooresville, Indiana was chosen as the winner of the contest and received the one hundred dollar prize.
On May 31, 1917 the flag was adopted as the state's Banner. The legislature made only one change to original design, they added the word Indiana over the top of the torch. The state banner was later renamed the state's flag in a new statute passed in 1955.