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

Hank Greenberg

Hank Greenberg 1B, LF 1930-1946   Greenberg was the first Tiger inducted into the military during World War II, interrupting his outstanding baseball career for four full seasons.  He finished his...

    Our Saviour's Lutheran Church

    Organized as a Scandinavian congregation in 1868, Our Saviour’s became a Danish church in 1875 and served the American Evangelical Lutheran Synod until 1962. First used for worship in 1869,...

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    Kathleen Blake Coleman

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    The Wormeley Horse Trough

    THE WORMELEY HORSE TROUGH  THIS GRANITE HORSE TROUGH, ORIGINALLY SITUATED AT THE FOOT OF  THORN HILL ROAD IN 1911, WAS GIVEN IN MEMORY OF KATHERINE  PRESCOTT WORMELEY BY HER FRIEND AND NEIGHBOR,...

      Brattle House Cambridge

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      Polonia Monterez

        Michigan Light Artillery Regiment / Batteries F and G

        During the Civil War more than three thousand men served in Michigan´s First Regiment of Artillery. The twelve batteries saw action in both major theaters. Unlike in infantry regiments, the...

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        Woodland Park

        During the 1920s, investors Wilber Lemon, A.E. Wright, Marion and Ella Auther, and others purchased land at Brookings, a former logging community. Here they platted Woodland Park as a summer...

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        Menominee Iron Range

        This range, named for the Menominee River which runs through part of it, is one of three great iron ore districts in the Upper Peninsula. In 1846 William A. Burt, the discoverer of the...

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