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

Horton Bay

Named for pioneer settler Samuel Horton, this village was founded as a lumbering community in 1876, complete with sawmill, shanty boys, boarding house, company store, blacksmith shop, and...

  • michigan
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USCG Cutter Mackinaw WAGB 83

Built in 1944 at a cost of $10 million, U.S. Coast Guard cutter MACKINAW had six ten-cylinder engines that enabled it to cut through several feet of lake ice. The powerful steel icebreaker...

  • michigan
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The Douglas House / Thomas Douglas

Canadian-born entrepreneur Thomas E. Douglas constructed a sawmill and general store in the logging community of Lovells around 1898. He erected a new store in 1903 after fire destroyed the first...

  • michigan
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Interlochen

Ottawa Indians once lived in the pine forest between Lakes Wahbekaness and Wahbekanetta. In the late 1800s white men came and cut the pines, leaving only a small forest between the lakes. This...

  • michigan
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Little Stone Church

The Union Congregational Church, affectionately called Little Stone Church, was established in 1900 by eleven charter members. Local residents and summer visitors donated funds for...

  • michigan
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The Copper Country

Long before Columbus reached America, Indians extracted native copper in the Lake Superior region and worked it into articles which were used by tribes throughout the continent. French explorers...

  • michigan
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Richard E. Lyng, The First Californian to Serve as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture

    William Sargent Ladd

      Carmelite Chapel of St. Joseph and St. Teresa and the Carmelite Monastery

      The cornerstone of the monastery was laid in April, 1891, James Freret, Architect, Fred Reusch, Jr, Builder.Founded by the Discalced Carmelite nuns, a contemplative and strictly cloistered order...

      • louisiana
      • church
      • new orleans

      Maison Olivier

      Raised Creole cottage constructed circa 1815 using boussillage, pegged cypress beams and bricks hand made by slaves using clay from Bayou Teche.

      • louisiana