About the Seal

This is the Seal of the City of Hickory, North Carolina. The Latin phrase "vestiga nulla retrorsum" means "no steps backward," and symbolizes the progressive thinking which the City has always had.

The City of Hickory was incorporated in 1870 as Hickory Tavern. The log cabin represents the first building in Hickory, which was a stagecoach stop where people rested on their journey.

The furniture business became popular in Hickory because there was wood in the nearby mountains that was transported to Hickory where it was turned into furniture and shipped via railroad. Hickory also became famous for its hosiery industries.

More than 125 years later, the City of Hickory is the banking, commercial, medical, and transportation services hub of a 350,000 metropolitan area with about 35,000 of those people living in the Hickory City Limits. Hickory is still famous for its furniture and hosiery industries, and now is known for its communications industries, which produce much of the world’s supply of fiber optic cable.

Description of the City seal in German