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

Pearl C. Arhontes

    Made for Hayward Fire Dept

    • 1901

    Hayward Fire Dept. 1870

      Mateo Jimenez

        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