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

Battery Mendel

BATTERY MENDEL  This battery was named for an Army engineer, Colonel George H. Mendel. After his graduation from West Point in 1852, he began a long career in planning and designing...

  • battery
  • disappearing guns
  • marin

Skip Hoitink 2014

Skip Hoitink 2014 For your love of our park, trails and ocean Our thanks - Depoe Bay

  • depoe bay
  • oregon

Harvey Milk

FORCEFUL ADVOCATE FOR THE RIGHTS OF ALL  "BURST DOWN THOSE CLOSET DOORS ONCE AND FOR ALL AND STAND UP AND START TO FIGHT."

  • san francisco
  • california
  • harvey milk

Dr. Frederick W. Westphal

In memory of  Dr. Frederick W. Westphal 1916 - 2003  Professor of Music, CSU Sacramento, 1948-1986 Resident of River Park for 50 years  Loved, respected, admired Remarkable musician and teacher

  • sacramento
  • california
  • music
  • river park

Point of Discovery

POINT OF DISCOVERY  ACROSS THE MISSISSIPPI IS THE MOUTH OF THE WISCONSIN RIVER. THIS IS THE POINT WHERE ON JUNE 17, 1673, PERE MARQUETTE AND LOUIS JOLIET IN TWO SMALL CANOES ENTERED...

  • iowa
  • pike's peak
  • marquette
  • joiet
  • mississippi
  • iowa soil
  • 1673

The Old Military Road

THE OLD MILITARY ROAD FROM FORT HOWARD ON GREEN BAY TO FORT CRAWFORD AT PRAIRIE DU CHIEN, 1835  ERECTED BY THE MILITARY RIDGE CHAPTER DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION  Submitted by @Susannist

    Antone School

    Submitted by @jqmcd

    • dublin
    • pleasanton
    • 1911
    • antone
    • schoolhouse

    Southern Pacific Depot, Danville, California, 1891

    • danville
    • california
    • depot

    Benjamin Albert Imes

    Described as the best-educated minister in all of Memphis in 1880 was a black man, the Rev. Benjamin A. Imes, who was a noted city leader. Imes held two degrees from Oberlin College and was...

    • shelby county
    • tennessee

    Cannon - Salute to USA

    This gun, one of a battery of eleven, at St. Eustatius, N.W.I., on November 16, 1776, fired the first salute by a foreign power to the Flag of the United States. This painting by Memphis...

    • shelby county
    • tennessee