Benny Benson, who designed the Alaska flag, died on June 2, 1972. From the timing, it is possible that his passing inspired the desire to create an Anchorage flag. ADVERTISEMENT ...

Benson is known as Benny Benson, and in 1927, he won a territory-wide contest with his flag design, which became the state flag after Alaska was admitted to the union in 1959. Benson is believed ...

Officials in Seward, Alaska, will decide Monday whether to demolish a neglected historical boarding school where the state flag was first flown nearly a century ago and where its Alaska Native ...

Review finds Alaska state flag designer was 14, not 13 A state of Alaska flag flies outside the Atwood Building in downtown Anchorage, Alaska, on Friday, March 11, 2022.

Key sources: “Blaze Consumes Art Works.” Anchorage Times, January 27, 1977, 2. “Buyer of the Aamodt Table to Keep Relic.” Anchorage Daily Times, May 21, 1958, 13. “Kimura Wins Flag ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The state of Alaska has issued a corrected birth certificate for the teenage designer of the Alaska flag, after researchers who were looking into his heritage found records ...