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

William "Bill" Lepere

    This is the Former Site of Eden Parlor No. 113 N.S.G.W. Hall

      Alex Giuliani Plaza

      • hayward
      • 1999
      • 1997
      • mayor

      Water Saves the Land

        James A. Garfield and the Civil War

        James A. Garfield and the Civil War His oratorical powers made him a master recruiter. His willingness to learn earned him important field commands. His talents for organization won him praise,...

        • ohio
        • historical marker
        • historical society
        • us president
        • garfield

        Hallowed Ground

        Commemoration of massacre of Black residents "that occurred on Election Day 1920. Until that episode, historians say, black people comprised about half of the city’s population. Trouble boiled...

        • racism
        • cemetary
        • voting
        • reconstruction
        • racial justice
        • ocoee
        • july perry

        Le Petit Prince -- Antoine de Saint Exupery

        Plaque describing statue of Le Petit Prince: Le Petit Prince Written in New York in 1943 by French Author, Aviator, and WWII Hero Antoine de Saint Exupéry Jean-Marc de Pas, Sculptor Bronze,...

        • petit prince
        • antoine de s...
        • scupture
        • central park

        Prof. John WInthrop, Mathematician & Philosopher

        Prof. John Winthrop The greatest American mathematician and philosopher of his time. A fellow of the Royal Society lived here from 1746 - 1779 1714-1779 added by Curiouser

        • john winthrop
        • mathematics
        • philosophy

        Heyward Shepherd

        ON THE NIGHT OF OCTOBER 16,1859, HEYWARD SHEPHERD,AN INDUSTRIOUS AND RESPECTED COLORED FREEMAN, WAS MORTALLY WOUNDED BY JOHN BROWN'S RAIDERS. IN PURSUANCE OF HIS DUTIES AS AN EMPLOYEE OF THE...

        • heyward shepherd
        • john brown
        • harpers ferry
        • imageryan

        Jack Barton Memorial Park

          Tulanian Rugs

          Tulanian Rugs Hutchison & Mills, Architects Leslie R. Wilson, Developer & Builder, 1923 In 1922, Armenian genocide survivor Hachadoor Tulanian (1894–1965) arrived in Berkeley and opened...

          • whoopi goldberg
          • elmwood

          The Historic Theta Xi Fraternity

            Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail

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              The Wharf Links Land and Sea

                Rosie the Riveter