Historical markers are groovy.
They aren't the end-all be-all for local history but they are a fun and easy way to promote a bit of history (if you're a doer) or soak up a bit of history
(if you're simply a consumer.)
Historical markers are put up by national,
state, or local governments or by clubs, businesses, or individuals. They can be made of wood, metal, or stone. There are all types and sizes.
Not everything you find written on them is completely true, though the current governmental and organizational programs I am familiar with do
strive for strict accuracy.
Some markers are long enough to give you a bit of background to the event or thing commemorated. Others are kept purposely short and sweet for people
to read on the fly while dashing by. It is the viewer's duty, if he choses to accept it, to then go and look up a
book to find out the rest of the story (or go and write a book herself, for a lot of these under-reported stories) or
to stop by an historical society to try to pry more details out of the members.
As with most historical subjects,
some groups have been putting a lot of info about their historical markers up on the Web, while others have not. In other words,
do not interpret finding nothing about your location on my page as meaning that there are no historical monuments near you.
Take it to mean that you personally are going to have to sling some info about your area's historical markers up on the Internet yourself. Hey,
you don't have to do what some of these people have done, photographing and HTMLizing the story of each marker in your state.
Plenty of people have simply put something about one or two historical monuments of interest to them up on the Web. Thanks to all of them for that.
What's an historical marker? Most of the ones
I have linked to here are the big metal ones put up by state programs but that's simply because those are the easiest to find info about.
If you know something about some local marker, please put it up on the Internet.
Those are the markers that are the hardest for the rest of us to find out anything about. Am I including interpretive signboards here? Sure I am. They are not strictly historical markers but they are certainly every bit as fascinating to us travelers or locals.
Alabama: a marker and another a marker project
Arkansas: University of Arkansas markers list
California: state markers lists or here or try there partial Tulare County markers list Santa Clarita Valley markers list a marker San Francisco historic signage project Tahoma interpretive panels project a markers article or here or there guidebook
Colorado: interpretive markers project monument article
Delaware: state markers list S.A.R. markers listing a marker
Florida: state markers lists or click here what's what an Alachua County marker a Brevard County marker Madison County markers list Marco Island markers list a Manatee County marker a marker
Georgia: state & historical society marker lists historical society markers list state markers program northern state markers list & guidebook Civil War markers Catoosa County markers Lincoln, Taliaferro, & Wilkes Counties markers lists Lumpkin County markers list Atlanta guidebook Augusta markers map or here and several Augusta markers and another a Forsyth County marker a marker and another a marker article & another & one more make your own marker
Idaho: a marker
Illinois: state markers lists Matteson markers list a DeKalb County marker a Lee County monument a marker Trail of Death markers article guidebook
Indiana: state markers list [Type * on ID line and click search.]
how to go about getting a state marker
marker photographs
Fort Wayne D.A.R. markers list
Franklin County markers list
Johnson County markers list
LaPorte County state markers list &
a marker
Noble County markers listing &
book
Sullivan County markers list
a Warren County marker and another
Hanover markers project article
an article
Iowa: a marker
Kansas: state markers list state markers listing Hays markers mini-map several markers or here Fort Leavenworth markers article markers lesson plan
Kentucky: state markers list markers repair project Adair County markers listing Clay County markers list Floyd County state markers a Lexington marker and here a Perryville marker a couple markers or click here a marker Lexington marker article
Louisiana: state markers list markers as visual art guidebook
Maryland: Anne Arundel County markers list 1896 Civil War tablets article guidebook
Massachusetts: Boston markers list an Arlington marker
Michigan: state markers list state markers program Kent County markers list -- a cool Eagle Scout project Albion markers list or here a Battle Creek marker or here a Clinton County marker a Homer marker a couple Jackson markers a Saginaw marker a Wayne County marker Hope College marker a marker another yet another
Minnesota: Sandstone marker
Mississippi: D.A.R. markers list some Vicksburg National Military Park markers a Covington County marker
Missouri: Trail of Death markers article
Nebraska: state markers list state markers listing partial state markers list partial state markers listing state markers program
Nevada: state markers list state marker program White Pine County historical markers list Carson City markers listing markers congressional act
New Hampshire: state markers lists markers lists a marker
New Jersey: Rockaway markers
New Mexico: a couple markers a couple more
New York: state markers list markers program short markers listing Washington County markers short listing Lynbrook markers Willsboro markers list a state marker story behind a marker erroneous Huntington markers mention
North Carolina: state markers listing or try here Rutherford County markers list Hillsborough markers Wadesboro & Durham historical markers project
North Dakota: guidebook
Ohio: state markers several Marietta markers a crime marker
Oklahoma: state markers program southwest Oklahoma markers listing McCurtain County markers listing a Chickasaw Nation marker article a marker a monumental theory
Oregon: state markers listings Oregon Trail interpretive kiosks list markers restoration Clackamas County markers listing Curry County markers listing Newport interpretive signs project
Pennsylvania: state marker program business markers list environmental markers list Fort McIntosh interpretive markers Penn State markers list some markers a literary marker a marker's story a proposed marker a marker article and another
South Carolina: a marker
South Dakota: a marker
Tennessee: 1997 state markers act Civil War markers list Nashville marker information a marker
Texas: state markers lists by county marker images newspaper articles guidebooks
Utah: Salt Lake County interpretive plaques project
Vermont: Waterbury markers lists
Virginia: markers policy change article Middle Peninsula of eastern Virginia markers map Culpeper County markers list Essex County markers map Halifax County markers Mecklenburg County Prince William County markers list Wise County markers list Civil War markers lists -- north central Shenandoah Vally south several markers a marker another yet another and still another a marker article and another guidebook
Washington: Spokane historic preservation markers program
West Virginia: Bluefield markers article
Wisconsin: state markers listings state markers criteria Chippewa County markers listing Columbia County markers list or here adult ed markers course guidebook
Wyoming: guidebook
USDOT transportation enhancement projects listing (including some relevant ones)
quarter horse markers list
General Kenton markers list
Potawatomi expulsion Trail of Death markers listing
Boone Trail tablets (not historical markers but fun nonetheless)
Philippines: a couple markers
United Kingdom: articles on interpretive panels Northern Ireland: Armagh Observatory meridian monuments (historic rather than historical but nevertheless fun)
markers discussion
school activities this just in school project synopsis
the fun of refinishing an historical marker, courtesy of the Texas Historical Commission
elimae fictional markers list & advice
marker books
Creative Edge Corporation or here
Mayfair Cast Metal Signs [Canadian]
marker refrigerator magnets, a cool idea
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