A gigantic map of all the cool plaques in the world. A project of 99% Invisible.

River Street

    Gagetown / Gagetown

    Brothers Joseph and James Gage immigrated from Canada in 1860. Joseph filed a homestead claim in Elmwood Township. In 1869, Joseph built a store and mill on his land. Two years later, he...

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    Indian Landing- Charlton Park

    In the early nineteenth century the Thornapple band of Ottawa Indians established a village a short distance from Thornapple Lake. It was served in the 1840s by a Methodist mission and...

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    Grant Water Tower

    Among the last of the wooden water towers in Michigan, the Grant Water Tower was built beside the depot in 1891 by the Grand Rapids, Newaygo and Lakeshore Railroad. It cost $1,910 and could...

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    John C. Blanchard / John and Harriet Blanchard House

    John Celsus Blanchard (1822-1905) epitomizes the American “self-made man.” He left his home in Cayuga County, New York, at age fourteen, bound for the western frontier. Blanchard worked as...

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    Newburgh Cemetery

    An organization, later known as the Newburgh Cemetery Society, was formed on November 23, 1832, to establish and maintain this cemetery, the first in the present city of Livonia. One grave, that...

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    Bay View Association / Bay View

    Beginning in 1875 as a Methodist camp, the Bay View Association encouraged scientific and intellectual development within a religious community. In 1885 John M. Hall of Flint began the summer...

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    No Home on the Home Front

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    Divided We Live

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    Rosie the Riveter Memorial

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