Featured Plaque:

Bram Stoker

Photographed by MKSeery from Open Plaques.

• dublin
• ireland
• dracula
• vampires
• stoker
• bram

Some Local History (Read This Its Cool)

Original Residents: The Ohlone For more than 2,500 years before the Spanish missionaries first arrived in the Bay Area in the 1770s, dozens of small, politically inde-pendent native...

• ohlone
• huchiun
• peralta
• oakland
• berkeley
• bay area
• east bay
• emeryville
• adobe
• rancho
• indian
• disease
• gold rush
• squatters

Forest Ranger William Henry Stephens

This plaque from 2007 is found in an off-the- beaten track location at Elk Island National Park. It is found along Rob's Road, an old warden's trail that is largely inaccessible to the public. It...

• william henr...
• forest fires
• fire
• conservation
• 1890s
• canada
• elk island
• elk island n...
• parks canada
• cooking lake

Preservation of the Plains Buffalo

This plaque commemorates the preservation of the plains bison by the Canadian government. A large proportion of plains bison currently in conservation herds are descendants of the Pablo- Allard...

• buffalo
• bison
• plains bison
• canada
• parks canada
• national parks
• conservation
• nature
• 1940s
• elk island
• elk island n...
• buffalo nati...
• alberta
• french
• bilingual

Stephen Stephensson

The monument was erected in north Iceland to honor Icelandic poet Stephen Stephensson. He was born in Skagafjörður, Iceland but emigrated to Wisconsin, USA in 1873. This monument was erected in...

• monument
• statue
• iceland

Apsonsi - Thai Angel Statue

Apsonsi - Thai Angel Statue Gateway to Thai Town Presented to the people of Los Angeles by the Thai Community Development Center and the Thai Town Formation Committee June 15, 2007 With funding...

• thai-america...
• asian-americ...
• los angeles
• hollywood
• angel
• thai town

Birthplace of Commercial Ice Cream Production

Article about this factory. Submitted by Denise Simard.

• pennsylvania
• seven valleys
• ice cream
• york county
• dairy farmers

Victoria Bridge, Victoria Road, Sowerby Bridge

'Erected by Major R Stansfield of Fieldhouse Sowerby 1864 Contractors F. Berry & Sons Sowerby Bridge Yorkshire'. © Copyright Humphrey Bolton and licensed for reuse under this Creative...

• geograph

Starring Billy Crystal and Debra Winger

Submitted by @lizzieohreally .

• elevator
• billy crystal
• debra winger
• los angeles

Bush the Fire Dog

Bush The Old Fire Dog Died of Poison July 5th 1869 R.I.P.   Article about Bush

• bush
• dog
• murder
• fire house
• murder mystery
• washington dc
• dc

About Húsavíkurkleif

This plaque and two others are at a remote and beautiful little waterfall outside of the town Hólmavík, on the Standir coast in the Westfjords. This plaque reads: HÚSAVÍKR KLEIFHúsavíkurkleif is a...

• informative
• iceland
• húsavíkurkleif

Welcome to Húsavík

This odd little plaque is at a remote waterfall outside of Hólmavík, in an area called Húsavík (not to be confused with the town in the north east of the country). It is a sign from the residents...

• iceland
• westfjords
• welcome

The Iceing Facilities at Húsavík

This informative plaque talks about some ruins not far from Húsavíkurkleif. THE ICING FACILITIES AT HÚSAVÍKJust below the main road, the remains of a quite remarkable building stand behind a...

• iceland
• informative

Balderas 95 groundbreaking ceremony

El 16 de junio de 1909 el  C. Presidente de la República General Porfirio Díaz Colocó La primera piedra de este edificio.   Submitted by @wittenbergman.

• mexico
• porfirio díaz
• balderas
• groundbreaking

James H. Marcniak

James H. Marciniak 1952-1971 The natural resources common to the tobico marsh area are a living Memorial to a young man who fully enjoyed and admired these marsh lands during his lifetime.

• michigan
• tobico
• marciniak

U.S. Army Ambulance Corps

• ambulance
• wwi
• uw
• seattle
• washington

The Birthplace of Freemasonry in West Texas

• san antonio
• texas
• freemasonry

A Leader of PATRIOTS in the Fight for Clean Water

In Memory of KATEY J. WYRICK b. May 15, 1949, d. Sept 29, 1987  A leader of PATRIOTS in the fight for clean water the fountain is donated by PATRIOTS by [*] with [*] & [*] 1999

• clean water
• guerneville
• california

Lincoln Brigade, University of Washington

VOLUNTARIOUS INTERNACIONALES DE LA LIBERTAD  "YOU ARE HISTORY, YOU ARE LEGEND"  10,000 international volunteers came to the defence of the Spanish Republic when Franco, Hitler and...

• seattle
• washington
• lincoln
• spanish civil war
• franco
• hitler
• mussolini
• lincoln bridge

Bank of Guerneville

• bank
• guerneville
• california
• paris