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

The Light Still Shines

You can find images of the lighthouse here. Fort Washington Park The Little Red Lighthouse This text is part of Parks’ Historical Signs Project and can be found posted within the park. The Little...

You can find images of the lighthouse here. Fort Washington Park The Little Red Lighthouse This text is part of Parks’ Historical Signs Project and can be found posted within the park. The Little...

    The Story of a Lighthouse

    You can find images of the lighthouse here. Fort Washington Park The Little Red Lighthouse This text is part of Parks’ Historical Signs Project and can be found posted within the park. The Little...

    You can find images of the lighthouse here. Fort Washington Park The Little Red Lighthouse This text is part of Parks’ Historical Signs Project and can be found posted within the park. The Little...

      The Little Red Lighthouse

      You can find images of the lighthouse here. Fort Washington Park The Little Red Lighthouse This text is part of Parks’ Historical Signs Project and can be found posted within the park. The Little...

      You can find images of the lighthouse here. Fort Washington Park The Little Red Lighthouse This text is part of Parks’ Historical Signs Project and can be found posted within the park. The Little...

        Hilltop Park

        Dedicated to Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center and the community of Washington Heights by the New York Yankees to mark the exact location of home plate in Hilltop Park, home of the New York...

        Dedicated to Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center and the community of Washington Heights by the New York Yankees to mark the exact location of home plate in Hilltop Park, home of the New...

          The Highest Natural Point on Manhattan

          THE HIGHEST NATURAL POINT ON MANHATTAN 265.05 FEET  ABOVE SEA LEVELUSC & GS DATUMSubmitted by @lampbane

          THE HIGHEST NATURAL POINT ON MANHATTAN 265.05 FEET  ABOVE SEA LEVELUSC & GS DATUMSubmitted by @lampbane

          • new york
          • manhattan
          • bennett park
          • washington heights

          Fort Tryon Park Playground

          THE SITE FOR THIS PLAYGROUND ADDITION TO FORT TRYON PARK WAS PRESENTED TO THE CITY OF NEW YORK BY JOHN D ROCKEFELLER JR 1941Submitted by @lampbane

          THE SITE FOR THIS PLAYGROUND ADDITION TO FORT TRYON PARK WAS PRESENTED TO THE CITY OF NEW YORK BY JOHN D ROCKEFELLER JR 1941Submitted by @lampbane

          • new york
          • manhattan
          • park
          • fort tryon
          • fort tryon park
          • playground

          Margaret Cochran Corbin

          MARGARET COCHRAN CORBIN 1751-1800   DURING THE BRITISH-HESSIAN ATTACK ON FORT WASHINGTON 16 NOVEMBER 1776 MARGARET CORBIN WAS WOUNDED WHEN SHE FILLED THE POST OF HER HUSBAND JOHN WHO WAS KILLED...

          MARGARET COCHRAN CORBIN 1751-1800   DURING THE BRITISH-HESSIAN ATTACK ON FORT WASHINGTON 16 NOVEMBER 1776 MARGARET CORBIN WAS WOUNDED WHEN SHE FILLED THE POST OF HER HUSBAND JOHN WHO WAS...

          • new york
          • manhattan
          • inwood
          • washington heights
          • margaret corbin
          • revolutionary war
          • 1776
          • 1982

          Fort Tryon Park

          FORT TRYON PARK THIS HISTORIC AREA AND ITS SVRROVNDINGS WERE DEVELOPED AND PRESENTED TO THE PEOPLE OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK IN 1935 BY JOHN D ROCKEFELLER JR THE ADJACENT HILLTOP AN OVTPOST OF FORT...

          FORT TRYON PARK THIS HISTORIC AREA AND ITS SVRROVNDINGS WERE DEVELOPED AND PRESENTED TO THE PEOPLE OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK IN 1935 BY JOHN D ROCKEFELLER JR THE ADJACENT HILLTOP AN OVTPOST OF FORT...

          • new york
          • manhattan
          • fort tryon
          • fort tryon park
          • park

          David Rockefeller Linden Terrace

          FORT TRYON PARK IN RECOGNITION OF THE GENEROVS SVPPORT DAVID ROCKEFELLER HAS GIVEN TO THE FORT TRYON PARK TRVST ON THE OCCASION OF THE PARK'S 75 ANNIVERSARY THIS SITE IS HEREBY DEDICATED AS THE...

          FORT TRYON PARK IN RECOGNITION OF THE GENEROVS SVPPORT DAVID ROCKEFELLER HAS GIVEN TO THE FORT TRYON PARK TRVST ON THE OCCASION OF THE PARK'S 75 ANNIVERSARY THIS SITE IS HEREBY DEDICATED AS...

          • new york
          • manhattan
          • fort tryon
          • fort tryon park
          • david rockefeller
          • 2010

          Morris-Jumel Mansion

          MORRIS-JUMEL MANSION   This Georgian country seat was built by Colonel Roger Morris in 1765. Colonel Morris, a Loyalist, left the house when he returned to England at the outbreak of the American...

          MORRIS-JUMEL MANSION   This Georgian country seat was built by Colonel Roger Morris in 1765. Colonel Morris, a Loyalist, left the house when he returned to England at the outbreak of the American...

          • 1765
          • georgian
          • mansion
          • new york
          • burr
          • george washington
          • jumel

          Middle Redoubt marker, Battle of Washington Heights, 1776

          This bronze tablet is in the Easterly Division of Trinity Church Cemetery & Mausoleum in Washington Heights, New York, NY. Affixed to a boulder near West 153rd Street and Amsterdam Avenue, the...

          This bronze tablet is in the Easterly Division of Trinity Church Cemetery & Mausoleum in Washington Heights, New York, NY. Affixed to a boulder near West 153rd Street and Amsterdam Avenue, the...

          • 1776
          • american revolution
          • battle
          • bronze
          • general washington
          • middle redoubt
          • tablet
          • washington heights

          Main Line of Defenses of Washington’s Army, September 1776

            This bronze tablet is on the northwest corner of Broadway at 153rd Street, New York, NY. Affixed to a retaining wall of the Westerly Division of Trinity Church Cemetery & Mausoleum, the plaque...

            This bronze tablet is on the northwest corner of Broadway at 153rd Street, New York, NY. Affixed to a retaining wall of the Westerly Division of Trinity Church Cemetery & Mausoleum, the...

          • 153rd street
          • 1776
          • american revolution
          • army
          • broadway
          • bronze
          • defense
          • sons of the ...
          • tablet
          • trinity chur...
          • washington
          • washington heights

          Ralph Ellison

          Inscription 1: RALPH ELLISON / 1914-1994 / AMERICAN WRITER / LONGTIME RESIDENT OF 730 RIVERSIDE DRIVE / HIS PIONEERING NOVEL, INVISIBLE MAN (1952), / DETAILS THE STRUGGLES OF A YOUNG /...

          Inscription 1: RALPH ELLISON / 1914-1994 / AMERICAN WRITER / LONGTIME RESIDENT OF 730 RIVERSIDE DRIVE / HIS PIONEERING NOVEL, INVISIBLE MAN (1952), / DETAILS THE STRUGGLES OF A YOUNG...

            Polo Grounds

            Approximate location of home plate.Home of the New York Giants National Baseball League 1890–1957.World Champions 1904 • 1905 • 1921 • 1922 • 1933 • 1954.The Giants shared this field with the New...

            Approximate location of home plate.Home of the New York Giants National Baseball League 1890–1957.World Champions 1904 • 1905 • 1921 • 1922 • 1933 • 1954.The Giants shared this field with the New...

              Joe DiMaggio

                Hamilton Grange

                Submitted by @barkosu

                Submitted by @barkosu

                  From Hamilton's Home to a National Memorial

                  Submitted by @Ritterton

                  Submitted by @Ritterton

                    Shorakkapoch Rock

                    It's a plaque on a rock in Inwood Hill Park in the most Northern tip of Manhattan. The text on the plaque reads: "ACCORDING TO LEGEND, ON THIS SITE OF THE PRINCIPAL MANHATTAN INDIAN VILLAGE, PETER...

                    It's a plaque on a rock in Inwood Hill Park in the most Northern tip of Manhattan. The text on the plaque reads: "ACCORDING TO LEGEND, ON THIS SITE OF THE PRINCIPAL MANHATTAN INDIAN VILLAGE,...

                    • manhanttan
                    • new york
                    • nyc peter minuit
                    • inwood hill park
                    • native americans
                    • 1626

                    George F. Baker

                    A TRIBUTE TO GEORGE F.BAKER PHILANTHROPIST BENEFACTOR OF AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES DONOR OF BAKER FIELD TO COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY ERECTED IN GRATEFUL APPRECIATION BY THE COLUMBIA VARSITY CLUB  JUNE 1928. 

                    A TRIBUTE TO GEORGE F.BAKER PHILANTHROPIST BENEFACTOR OF AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES DONOR OF BAKER FIELD TO COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY ERECTED IN GRATEFUL APPRECIATION BY THE COLUMBIA VARSITY CLUB  JUNE 1928.