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

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

        This Your Wishing Well

        IN THESE BEAUTIFUL SURROUNDINGS BY THE COURTESY OF THE KINGS PARK BOARD OF PERTH THE ROTARY CLUB OF PERTH HAS PLACED THIS YOUR WISHING WELL HELP BY YOUR GIFTS THOSE WHO ARE LESS FORTUNATE YOUR...

        • community projects
        • laden with good

        In Memory of the 4,000 Cherokees Who Died on the Trail of Tears

        PLANTED OCT. 29, 1988 IN MEMORY OF THE 4,000 CHEROKEES WHO DIED ON THE TRAIL OF TEARS 1838