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

Kansas City City Market

    Lieut-Gen. Sir Manley Power K.C.B.K.T.S

    Submitted by @slashdotat

    • intrepid discharge
    • sincere was his zeal

    New Echota

    NEW ECHOTA Cherokee National Capital The sprawling town of New Town which had stood here since 1819 was designated the seat of government for the new Cherokee Nation in a legislative act of 1825...

      Lincoln Memorial Shrine

      Submitted by @jqmcd.

        Plaza Theatre

        Submitted by @jqmcd.

          Triangle Park

          Submitted by @jqmcd.

            Redlands Liberty Pole

            THE REDLANDS LIBERTY POLE IN 1895 THE JUNIOR ORDER OF AMERICAN MECHANICS ERECTED THE FIRST REDLANDS "LIBERTY POLE" A TERM DERIVED FROM THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION MADE FROM A CENTURY OLD, DOUGLAS...

              Larkin Locke House

              LARKIN LOCKE HOUSE FIRST CONSTABLE OF PLEASANTON THIS HOUSE IS ONE OF PLEASANTON'S EARLIEST EXAMPLES OF CRAFTSMAN STYLE ARCHITECTURE. BUILT 1911

                Denise Renee Lemos Memorial Garden

                Denise Renee Lemos Memorial Garden April 7, 1961 August 11, 2019

                  Bryant Park Place - The Engineer's Club

                  Bryant Park Place A COOPERATIVE CORPORATIONORIGINALLY KNOWN AS "THE ENGINEERS CLUB" IN 1903, ANDREW CARNEGIE PRESENTED THE PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS OF ENGINEERS WITH A DONATION TO FUND THE...

                  • new york
                  • manhattan
                  • midtown
                  • bryant park
                  • engineering
                  • 1903
                  • 1907

                  Coffee Siding

                  Note that the marker appears to have been sponsored by descendants of the rancher, Charles Franklin Coffee, who built the railroad siding commemorated here. As usual when you start looking for...

                  • nebraska
                  • sioux county
                  • ranching
                  • railroads
                  • great plains

                  The Cheyenne Outbreak

                  The Cheyenne Outbreak   On September 9, 1878, after a year of suffering on an Oklahoma reservation, some 300 Northern Cheyenne Indians began a trek back to their homeland. Dull Knife’s bank of 149...

                  • indian wars
                  • nebraska
                  • fort robinson
                  • cheyenne

                  Ralph Carr Memorial Highway

                  Location on U.S. 285 at Kenosha Pass. More on Governor Ralph L. Carr here. Plaque text: In Commemoration of Ralph L. Carr Governor of Colorado (1939-1943) Following the Japanese attack on Pearl...

                  • colorado
                  • world war ii
                  • japanese americans
                  • executive order 9066
                  • internment
                  • ralph carr

                  Here Stood the Mission Hospice

                  "Here stood the Mission Hospice built around 1800 by the Spanish Padres on El Camino Real to break the journey from Santa Clara and serve the Indians of Mission Dolores." California...

                  • california missions
                  • mission dolores
                  • ohlone people

                  Legend of the Turnips