Historical Marker Ahead
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Yes, I’m pulling the car over to look at plaques. I’ll be just a minute. Not a historian, but did minor in history at Indiana University. Formerly notgoingpro on other socials.
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Inside Indiana’s 'best-kept secret,’ historical markers • Indiana Capital Chronicle
The Indiana State Historical Marker Program began in 1946 and has administered more than 750 historical markers across the state.
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A good primer on historical markers: how they’re researched, approved and made. And, why they matter, and the biggest threats to their existence. Thanks for the tip, @grrlherstorian.bsky.social! indianacapitalchronicle.com/2025/07/21/i...
The Georgia historical marker shown here didn’t go up until 2010, one of 10 put up as part of a campaign marking the 150th anniversary of the U.S. Civil War. This campaign was not intended as a hagiography of the Old South www.georgiahistory.com/learn-and-ex...
#tdih Dec. 9: Three Reconstruction era stories. 🧵
1). #tdih 1864 Ebenezer Creek Massacre.
Part 1: People (incl. children) had escaped from slavery & were following Union Army.
They were blocked from crossing Ebenezer Creek, leading to their death. 💔
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/eb...
1). #tdih 1864 Ebenezer Creek Massacre.
Part 1: People (incl. children) had escaped from slavery & were following Union Army.
They were blocked from crossing Ebenezer Creek, leading to their death. 💔
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/eb...
Dec. 9, 1864: Ebenezer Creek Massacre
People who had escaped from slavery and were following the Union Army, were blocked from crossing the Ebenezer Creek, leading to their death.
www.zinnedproject.org
December 10, 2025 at 5:22 AM
The Georgia historical marker shown here didn’t go up until 2010, one of 10 put up as part of a campaign marking the 150th anniversary of the U.S. Civil War. This campaign was not intended as a hagiography of the Old South www.georgiahistory.com/learn-and-ex...
The signs says the slave cemetery, located in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, was discovered during a 1960 road construction project.
Watkins Slave Cemetery
Historic Roadsign seen on Davidsonville Road, along with photos of the old Mount Tabor Church and graveyard.
There is no marker commemorating the bodies of the slaves relocated from the Locust Grove Plantation, where they originally were anonymously buried.
Historic Roadsign seen on Davidsonville Road, along with photos of the old Mount Tabor Church and graveyard.
There is no marker commemorating the bodies of the slaves relocated from the Locust Grove Plantation, where they originally were anonymously buried.
December 10, 2025 at 3:21 AM
The signs says the slave cemetery, located in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, was discovered during a 1960 road construction project.
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We stopped by the site of Charles Lindbergh’s first solo flight, as it was just down the road. Not exactly a fan, but a historic site nonetheless.
December 9, 2025 at 2:18 AM
We stopped by the site of Charles Lindbergh’s first solo flight, as it was just down the road. Not exactly a fan, but a historic site nonetheless.
The grant for LGBTQ+ historical markers in Ohio that was cut in the early days of DOGE has been restored. But no word on when, or if, the planned 10 markers across the state would go up www.nbc4i.com/news/local-n...
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December 9, 2025 at 8:25 PM
The grant for LGBTQ+ historical markers in Ohio that was cut in the early days of DOGE has been restored. But no word on when, or if, the planned 10 markers across the state would go up www.nbc4i.com/news/local-n...
For you folks who like the pugilistic and metal-based arts, this reskeet is part of a thread on historical markers, sites and statues of famous boxers.
The Johnny Kilbane statue in Cleveland, OH. As well as his old house with historical marker and streets labeled “Kilbane Town.”
December 9, 2025 at 8:20 PM
For you folks who like the pugilistic and metal-based arts, this reskeet is part of a thread on historical markers, sites and statues of famous boxers.
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"AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more."
This piece on AI by Cory Doctorow is spectactular.
pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...
This piece on AI by Cory Doctorow is spectactular.
pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...
December 9, 2025 at 2:58 PM
"AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more."
This piece on AI by Cory Doctorow is spectactular.
pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...
This piece on AI by Cory Doctorow is spectactular.
pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...
This is a fairly not-obscure entry for Vintage Obscura Radio. The Soft Boys were fairly influential and spawned Robyn Hitchcock plus (for a time) his backing band. The only one who didn’t follow was guitarist Kimberly Rew, who co-founded Katrina and the Waves and co-wrote “Walking on Sunshine.”
Soft boys - Pigworker [England, Post Punk, Neo-Psych] (1979)
https://redd.it/bc23gs
https://youtu.be/cytSYnlpANw
https://redd.it/bc23gs
https://youtu.be/cytSYnlpANw
Soft boys - Pigworker [England, Post Punk, Neo-Psych] (1979)
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December 9, 2025 at 5:55 PM
This is a fairly not-obscure entry for Vintage Obscura Radio. The Soft Boys were fairly influential and spawned Robyn Hitchcock plus (for a time) his backing band. The only one who didn’t follow was guitarist Kimberly Rew, who co-founded Katrina and the Waves and co-wrote “Walking on Sunshine.”
Soledad Chávez de Chacón, the first Hispanic woman elected to state office (New Mexico Secretary of State in 1922) and serve as governor (a few days in 1924), recently got a second historical marker at the Albuquerque airport in addition to this one in Santa Fe. www.abqjournal.com/news/article...
December 9, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Soledad Chávez de Chacón, the first Hispanic woman elected to state office (New Mexico Secretary of State in 1922) and serve as governor (a few days in 1924), recently got a second historical marker at the Albuquerque airport in addition to this one in Santa Fe. www.abqjournal.com/news/article...
The Indiana Pacers’ Pascal Siakam makes the same face I would when he sees a marker in the Tabernacle Presbyterian church gym in Indianapolis for one of the kids that used to play there — former Pacer George Hill. Hill played at IUPUI with Siakam’s brother Christian www.instagram.com/reel/DR7ki1W...
December 8, 2025 at 11:49 PM
The Indiana Pacers’ Pascal Siakam makes the same face I would when he sees a marker in the Tabernacle Presbyterian church gym in Indianapolis for one of the kids that used to play there — former Pacer George Hill. Hill played at IUPUI with Siakam’s brother Christian www.instagram.com/reel/DR7ki1W...
If this writer would like to know what a lynching really is there are many easily accessible historical markers with brief, gruesome tales that don’t involve bad prose and RFK Jr eji.org/projects/com...
Possibly the only thing more freakish than Nuzzi's prose is the contortions her defenders twist themselves into. "She's not just hot, but she definitely is hot, while also being a vulnerable smol child. Also, criticizing her is sexist."
December 8, 2025 at 7:52 PM
If this writer would like to know what a lynching really is there are many easily accessible historical markers with brief, gruesome tales that don’t involve bad prose and RFK Jr eji.org/projects/com...
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“White Americans desire to be free from a past they do not want to remember, while Black Americans remain bound to a past they can never forget.”
— Nicole Hannah Jones
— Nicole Hannah Jones
December 2, 2025 at 4:55 PM
“White Americans desire to be free from a past they do not want to remember, while Black Americans remain bound to a past they can never forget.”
— Nicole Hannah Jones
— Nicole Hannah Jones
The lynching of Mary Turner was in 1918, inspiring the first introduction of federal anti-lynching legislation. That people shot at and ran over the historical marker give you some idea why this legislation didn’t pass until 2022 — 104 years later.
apnews.com/article/geor...
apnews.com/article/geor...
Bullet-pocked marker memorializing 1918 lynching goes on display in Atlanta
An exhibit opening Monday in Atlanta shows a historical marker from the site of a 1918 lynching that was repeatedly vandalized.
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December 8, 2025 at 5:26 AM
The lynching of Mary Turner was in 1918, inspiring the first introduction of federal anti-lynching legislation. That people shot at and ran over the historical marker give you some idea why this legislation didn’t pass until 2022 — 104 years later.
apnews.com/article/geor...
apnews.com/article/geor...
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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
Next door to Saturday’s site for my daughter’s Western Michigan University holiday choir concert is Michigan’s first women’s club, one of the oldest in the U.S.. The Ladies’ Library of Kalamazoo organized in 1852, its building dates to 1879. Here’s how to join: ladieslibrarykzoo.org/membership-faq
December 8, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Next door to Saturday’s site for my daughter’s Western Michigan University holiday choir concert is Michigan’s first women’s club, one of the oldest in the U.S.. The Ladies’ Library of Kalamazoo organized in 1852, its building dates to 1879. Here’s how to join: ladieslibrarykzoo.org/membership-faq
I highly endorse Dadvent Calendar Day 5. Although I’ll note while pulling over for historical markers is very dad-coded it’s something that can and should be done by everyone! Public history is for all of us!
Dadvent Calendar Day 5 - Ever been out for a drive in the family truckster when you pass a historic marker and wish you could go back and read it? Your days of missed facts are over with the Historical Marker Database. Nearly 250,000 markers from all over the world!
The Historical Marker Database
Public history cast in metal, carved on stone, permanently marked.
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December 7, 2025 at 7:10 PM
I highly endorse Dadvent Calendar Day 5. Although I’ll note while pulling over for historical markers is very dad-coded it’s something that can and should be done by everyone! Public history is for all of us!
As the marker says, these are the remains of a summer home a mining magnate built in Nevada in 1897. They occupied it for two months.
December 7, 2025 at 7:09 PM
As the marker says, these are the remains of a summer home a mining magnate built in Nevada in 1897. They occupied it for two months.
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The Dirty Business of Slavery Historical Marker www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=146650 Read and copy while you can!!!
The Dirty Business of Slavery Historical Marker
(A historical marker located in Philadelphia in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.)
www.hmdb.org
December 7, 2025 at 1:36 AM
The Dirty Business of Slavery Historical Marker www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=146650 Read and copy while you can!!!
I think Sauce Gardner brought Jets vibes with him
December 7, 2025 at 7:00 PM
I think Sauce Gardner brought Jets vibes with him
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The last time Indiana won an outright Big Ten title, 1945, the leading rusher was George Taliaferro.
The next spring, he was the first Black player to be drafted by an NFL team.
The next spring, he was the first Black player to be drafted by an NFL team.
December 7, 2025 at 4:37 AM
The last time Indiana won an outright Big Ten title, 1945, the leading rusher was George Taliaferro.
The next spring, he was the first Black player to be drafted by an NFL team.
The next spring, he was the first Black player to be drafted by an NFL team.
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On the way up Mount Lemmon, you pass by a campground named for a Japanese-American who resisted internment during WWII, on the grounds of the prison where he served his time, on the road prisoners built (but is named for someone else) bsky.app/profile/hist...
This seems like a good time for everyone to do their own research on Gordon Hirabayashi. Let’s just say in another 45-80 years, if we don’t collapse, we’ll again be giving awards and naming things after people we’ve wronged. (Read the alt text.) Oh, one more skeet… www.ualberta.ca/en/folio/202...
December 6, 2025 at 6:27 PM
On the way up Mount Lemmon, you pass by a campground named for a Japanese-American who resisted internment during WWII, on the grounds of the prison where he served his time, on the road prisoners built (but is named for someone else) bsky.app/profile/hist...
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Views on the way up Mount Lemmon (peak elevation 9,200 ft), or as the Tohano O’odham call it, Babad Do’ag (Frog Mountain). Located near Tucson, Arizona, the climate goes from desert to snowy pines. Near the top, there’s a small resort town called Summerhaven, as well as a ski hill.
December 6, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Views on the way up Mount Lemmon (peak elevation 9,200 ft), or as the Tohano O’odham call it, Babad Do’ag (Frog Mountain). Located near Tucson, Arizona, the climate goes from desert to snowy pines. Near the top, there’s a small resort town called Summerhaven, as well as a ski hill.
A new dark day in Ohio State football. Although IU’s last win was in 1988 — when I was one of the football reporters for the Indiana Daily Student. I am old. And thrilled. www.thedailyhoosier.com/this-day-in-...
This day in IU football history: Ohio State program goes dark in Columbus
October 10, 1987 – Columbus, Ohio A pouring rain made for a dreary day in central Ohio. For Ohio State and its fans, the conditions outside were the least of their problems. A balanced attac…
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December 7, 2025 at 4:25 AM
A new dark day in Ohio State football. Although IU’s last win was in 1988 — when I was one of the football reporters for the Indiana Daily Student. I am old. And thrilled. www.thedailyhoosier.com/this-day-in-...
Views on the way up Mount Lemmon (peak elevation 9,200 ft), or as the Tohano O’odham call it, Babad Do’ag (Frog Mountain). Located near Tucson, Arizona, the climate goes from desert to snowy pines. Near the top, there’s a small resort town called Summerhaven, as well as a ski hill.
December 6, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Views on the way up Mount Lemmon (peak elevation 9,200 ft), or as the Tohano O’odham call it, Babad Do’ag (Frog Mountain). Located near Tucson, Arizona, the climate goes from desert to snowy pines. Near the top, there’s a small resort town called Summerhaven, as well as a ski hill.
The Lake Superior live shot below and the city’s early 20th century mining boom explains a lot about Houghton, Michigan’s claim to birthing pro hockey, but here’s more if you need it: www.visitkeweenaw.com/blog/post/a-...
December 6, 2025 at 5:25 PM
The Lake Superior live shot below and the city’s early 20th century mining boom explains a lot about Houghton, Michigan’s claim to birthing pro hockey, but here’s more if you need it: www.visitkeweenaw.com/blog/post/a-...
For today’s MAC championship: go Broncos. (I have a kid in the marching band missing today’s game for a choir concert involving her actual major but it’s killing her not to be there.)
In honor of tonight’s MACtion, near Western Michigan’s Waldo Stadium is a 32-ton boulder alumni dragged, at the request of the school’s first president, Dwight Waldo, from his childhood home to campus. Note: they didn’t finish the job until 1944 — five years after Waldo’s death.
December 6, 2025 at 5:17 PM
For today’s MAC championship: go Broncos. (I have a kid in the marching band missing today’s game for a choir concert involving her actual major but it’s killing her not to be there.)