Designation	Symbol / Emblem	Adopted
Artisans Center	Virginia Artisans Center, Waynesboro	1999
Beverage	Milk	1982
Bird	Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis)	1950
Boat	Chesapeake Bay Deadrise	1988
Dog	American Foxhound	1966
Emergency Medical Services Museum	"To the rescue", Roanoke	1994
Fish	Brook Trout(Salvelinus fontinalis)	1993
Motto	Sic Semper Tyrants
Population	around 6,552,000
Floral Emblem	American Dogwood (Cornus florida)	9181
Folklore Center	The Blue Ridge Institute, Ferrum	1986
Folk Dance	Square Dance	1991
Fossil	Chesapecten jeffersonius	1993
Land Area	39,704 square miles (36th in nation); 1,037 square miles of inland waters.
Historical Outdoor Drama	"The Long Way Home", based on the life of Mary Draper Ingles, adapted for stage by Earl Hobson Smith, performed in Radford.	1994
Insect	Tigger Sawallowtail Butterfly (Papilio glaucus Linnaeus)	1991
Gold Mining Interpretive Center	Monroe Park, Goldvein, Virginia	2001
Language	English	1996
Motor Sports Museum	"Wood brothers Racing Museum and Virginia Motor Sports Hall of Fame", Patrick County	1995
Outdoor Drama	"The Trail of the Lonestome Pine Outdoor Drama" adapted for stage by Clara Lou Kelly, performed in Big Stone Gap.	1994
Shell	Oyster Shell(Crassostraea virginica)	1974
Song Emeritus	"Carry me back to old Virginia" by James B. Bland Adopted as state "song" in 1940. Given title of state song "emeritus" when the Virginia Legislature decided they needed a new song in 1997. Originally titled "Carry Me Back To Old Virginny."	1940 1997
Sports Hall of Fame	Virginia Sports Hall of Fame, Portsmouth	1996
Tree	Dogwood(Cornus florida)	1956
War Memorial Museum	"Virginia War Museum", Newport News	1997