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I found two flags of Pelham, AL and I’m not sure which one is the real one.

The first version of the flag is a green field with the city logo centred. The logo is a circular shape with a mountain terrain shown in it. The word “Pelham” is written under it.

The second version of the flag is a green field with the city seal in white centred. The seal is made up of an outer circle and inner circle. The words “THE CITY OF” and “ALABAMA” is shown around the outer circle of the seal with stars next to the words. The word “Pelham” is displayed stylised and written in cursive in the centre of the inner circle with the outline of Alabama under it. The year 1964 is shown under the map of Alabama as the date of incorporation.

The flag is a white field with the city’s “Alabaster City Unlimited” logo centred. The logo features a grey water tower on top of the words “Alabaster” in dark red and “CITY UNLIMITED” in dark grey.

The flag is made up of two stripes that are red and grey respectively. A white line separates the two stripes. In the middle is the city seal, which says “GADSDEN” on the top of the seal, “ALABAMA” at the bottom of the seal and “EST.” and “1846” on each side of the seal respectively. In the seal is a city, with a bridge which seems like the Etowah Memorial Bridge.

The flag has a red-white-red vertical triband with the city logo in the middle and the motto “THE FOUNTAIN CITY” in black under it.

The flag is two white bars extending diagonally across the design and crossing each other at the center divide the field into four triangular sections, the upper and lower sections being blue, and each of the two side sections being red. A circular white field is in the center of the design at the point where the diagonal white bars cross each other. A blue star, slightly smaller in diameter then the said white circular field, is at the center of said circular field. The name of the City, to-wit: VESTAVIA HILLS, is inscribed on the diagonal white bars, with the aforesaid star at center dividing the two words."

There is currently no official meaning of the flag. The flag is a white field with the city seal in the middle. The seal consists of the words “CITY OF HOOVER” surrounding the top section of the flag and “ALABAMA” surrounding the bottom section of the flag. In the middle of the seal contains a pathway and a tree. The seal is mainly blue and white.

Source: https://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/us-al-mm.html

The field of Montgomery’s flag is divided diagonally, gray at the hoist, red at the fly. A diagonal blue stripe, fimbriated in white with seven five-pointed white stars spaced evenly on the blue, separates the gray and the red. On a field of 5 by 8 units, the blue stripe is one unit in width (including fimbriations) and slants from the top 5 units from the hoist to the bottom 2 units from the hoist. In the center of the field, superimposed on the blue stripe and adjacent fields, is an open laurel wreath in gold 2.5 units in diameter. The fields on either side of the wreath’s interior are counterchanged (colors alternated) with those of the exterior, red on the hoist side and gray on the fly side. Above the wreath near the top and beginning 2 units from the hoist on the gray field is CITY OF, and below, on the red field beginning near the blue stripe and extending to within one unit of the fly’s edge, is MONTGOMERY, all in white block letters.

Gray, from the color of the uniforms of the soldiers of the Confederate States of America, represents the Confederacy. Red, the color of the saltire on the state’s flag, symbolizes Alabama. Blue denotes the “blue and gray” unity of today (the uniforms of the Union soldiers during the Civil War were blue). The seven white stars symbolize the seven original states of the Confederacy, “brought together in the center wreathed in glory and honor”, according to the city’s chamber of commerce.

Source: Wikipedia

The flag consists of a vertical triband of red-white-red stripes in proportion 4:7:4. The red symbolises the valour of the men in Birmingham, while the white reflects the purity of the women in the city. The gold points toward the mineral wealth of the city as well as the high standard of its citizens. In the centre is a big red star representing the city, surrounded by a ring made up of 67 golden stars, representing the 67 counties of Alabama. Radiating out the stars are 85 golden rays, forming another circle, suggesting “All roads lead to Birmingham”. The centre of the star lies the city seal, which is a depiction of the god Vulcan, the Roman god of smiths, since Birmingham was the centre of industry.