Anniversaries

These plates commemorate various anniversaries, and are sorted by the milestone. U.S. Bicentennials have their own page.

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50 Years

Alaska issued the above graphic plate for a two-year period starting in 2008; Idaho‘s 1940 plate also noted 50 years of statehood.

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75 Years

Keeneland, located in Lexington, is a leading thoroughbred race course and horse auction complex. It began racing operations in 1936.

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100 Years

Plates above listed as “State (event noted, type)”: Alaska (Alaska Purchase, general issue; Alaska Gold Rush, general issue); Arizona (statehood, specialty); Colorado (statehood, general issue; statehood, plain version*, general issue); Idaho (statehood, optional which became general issue); Indiana (George Rogers Clark expedition, general issue); Kansas (statehood, general issue, noted for two consecutive years; booster), Michigan (production of Duryea automobiles, optional), Minnesota (territorial establishment, general issue); Montana (statehood, general issue); Nebraska (statehood, general issue); Nevada (Las Vegas founding, specialty); New Mexico (statehood, optional); North Dakota (statehood, general issue; booster); Oklahoma (statehood, specialty); Oregon (Crater Lake, specialty); South Dakota (statehood, with and without optional “Celebrate the Century” sticker”); Utah (statehood, optional which became general issue, both versions); Washington (statehood, general issue); and Wyoming (statehood, general issue)

*near the end of the run, the state ran out of Centennial graphic plates, so issued a plain version to new registrants

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125 Years

Nevada issued this optional for the Quasquicentennial of statehood.

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150 Years

Plates above listed as “State (event noted, type)”: California (statehood, general issue*); Illinois (statehood, general issue*); Indiana (statehood, general issue); Iowa (statehood, optional; statehood, optional); Michigan (statehood, optional*); Minnesota (statehood, optional); Nebraska (statehood, general issue); Nevada (statehood, optional); Ohio (first settlers’ arrival in the Northwest Territory, general issue); Oregon (statehood, optional); Texas (state’s declaration of independence, general issue; statehood, general issue/optional); West Virginia (statehood, optional); and Wisconsin (statehood, optional).

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200 Years

Plates above listed as “State (event noted, type)”: Alabama (statehood, optional); California (Bill of Rights, optional); Indiana (statehood, general issue); Louisiana (Louisiana Purchase, general issue; statehood, general issue; Battle of New Orleans, general issue); Maryland (War of 1812/writing of Star Spangled Banner, general issue); Missouri (statehood, general issue); Montana (Lewis & Clark expedition, specialty); North Dakota (Lewis & Clark expedition, specialty); Ohio (statehood, general issue); Pennsylvania (signing of the U.S. Constitution, optional); Tennessee (statehood, general issue); Virginia (George Washington Bicentennial, specialty).

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300 Years

In 1663, settlers founded Arbemarle Point, which later moved and became what is Charleston today.

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350 Years

This optional plate commemorated 350 years of settlement.

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400 Years

Florida‘s 400th anniversary plate celebrates the founding of St. Augustine, the oldest continually occupied European settlement in the United States. Virginia honored Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement, with a base plate (which was four varieties) as well as a specialty, right.

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500 Years

Florida reached way, way back to become the first state (and only one thus far) to put a 500th anniversary on a license plate. This specialty plate raised funds for a series of events and programs associated with the Columbus Quincentenary celebration.

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US Bicentennials