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

Del Mar Canning Company

  • cannery row
  • steinbeck
  • 1927
  • fish & flour
  • 1936
  • fire

This British Carronade

THIS BRITISH CARRONADE WAS CAPTURED DURING THE REPULSE AT SANDY BAY OF A LANDING PARTY FROM HIS MAJESTY'S FRIGATE NYMPH IN THE EARLY MORNING OF SEPTEMBER 9, 1814

  • 1814
  • carronade
  • nymph
  • frigate

MICHIGAN'S FIRST JEWISH SETTLER

MICHIGAN'S FIRST JEWISH SETTLER Ezekiel Solomon, a native of Berlin, Germany, who had served with the British army, arrived at Michilimackinac in the summer of 1761.  He is Michigan's first...

  • michigan reg...
  • mackinaw city
  • michilimackinac
  • jewish history

USCGC Mackinaw final crew commemoration

In commemoration and tribute to the historic preservation efforts of the final crew and to honor every Mackinaw sailor who ever chipped paint, wiped oil, or swabbed a deck throughout her sixty-two...

  • us coast guard
  • mackinaw
  • foundation f...

MACKINAW CITY

MACKINAW CITY This site was the terminus of the Dixie Highway, the Mackinaw Trail, the East Michigan Pike and the West Michigan Pike.  The East and West Pikes were mapped out in 1913 as gravel and...

  • mackinaw city
  • michigan reg...
  • dixie highway
  • mackinaw trail
  • east michigan pike
  • west michigan pike

Hon. Stanley Ronald Basford P.C., Q.C. 1932-2005

Hon. Stanley Ronald Basford P.C., Q.C. 1932-2005 Ron Basford was elected Member of Parliament for Vancouver Centre in 1963 and served as a  Minister from 1967-1978. Advances in consumer...

    Captain Edward Stamp

    Here Captain Edward Stamp pioneer industrialist and legislator started lumbering operations; then, finding a better site, he moved elsewhere on Burrard Inlet, and founded in the wilderness,...

    • captain edward stamp
    • vancouver
    • stanley park
    • then finding...
    • moved elsewhere

    Logan Square

      Mr. & Mrs. E. K. Anderson Memorial Fountain

      Submitted by Darren Platt

        Oregon Caves National Monument

        • taft
        • oregon
        • caves
        • 1909