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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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Historical Marker Ahead @historicalmarker.bsky.social · Jul 21
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...
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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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.
December 7, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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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...
historicalmarker.bsky.social Historical Marker Ahead @historicalmarker.bsky.social · Mar 17
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...
Gordon Hirabayashi Campground in the Coronado National Forest, on the road heading to the top of Mt Lemmon outside Tucson, Arizona. Welcome to the Gordon Hirabayashi Recreation Site sign in Arizona. It includes a picture of him, and it reads: Who is Gordon Hirabayashi? In 1942, at age 24, Gordon Hirabayashi challenged the relocation and internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Convicted of violating a curfew imposed on Japanese Americans, he was sentenced to the Catalina Federal Honor Camp, the work camp that stood here between 1939 and 1973. Hirabayashi's case was reopened in 1987 and led to official apologies from the U.S. government for the mass incarceration of 117,000 Japanese American citizens and aliens alike. [Not mentioned on this sign, but some of this is mention on another: the U.S. Supreme Court upheld his conviction in 1943. Later a researcher discovered a false document was at the center of the case against him, and his conviction was reversed in 1987. Only months after his death at age 93 in 2012, he was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.) A sign in the Gordon Hirabayashi Recreation Site detailing the 20,000 Japanese-Americans who fought during World War II. Some enlisted because it was the only way to get out of the internment camps. “A Citizen’s Dilemma” sign at Gordon Hirabayashi Recreation Site, which includes a reunion photo of Japanese-Americans sent to it when it was a prison. It reads: More than 300 Japanese Americans refused to be drafted into the military until their constitutional rights as citizens were restored. The resisters did not object to the draft, in itself, but hoped that by defying the draft they would clarify their citizenship status. If they were to share in the rights and duties of citizens, why did the government forcibly incarcerate them and their lamthes. If their loyalty was in question, why were they being crafted? Their protest had little effect: the resisters were convicted of draft evasion and served two to three years in federal prisons. Over forty of the resisters were sent to the Catalina Federal Honor Camp in leg irons and handcuffs, under armed guard. The draft resisters were pardoned by President Harry S. Truman in 1947. However, the questions of whether citizens must prove loyalty and non citizens can stand up for civil rights, have still not been resolved. Quote from Gordon Hirabayashi: "I was always able to hold my head up high, because I wasn't just objecting and saying 'no,’ but was saying ‘yes' to a prior principle, the highest of principles."
December 6, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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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.
Frog Mountain marker at the Babad Do’ag overlook, at about 3,500 feet of elevation. An excerpt: The name "Baba Do’ag" is Tohono O'odham for "Frog mountain." From the Tucson valley the Santa Catalinas look like a giant sleeping frog. Tohono O'odham pronounce the word “bah-bahd-do-ahg.” The word Tucson also came from the Tohono O'odham language: it roughly translates to “at the foot of the black hill.” View of the Santa Catalina Mountains in Arizona from Windy Point, elevation 6,700 feet. A rock popular with climber near Windy Point in Arizona’s Santa Catalina Mountains. Snow on the ski hill on Mount Lemmon, Arizona
December 6, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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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
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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.
Frog Mountain marker at the Babad Do’ag overlook, at about 3,500 feet of elevation. An excerpt: The name "Baba Do’ag" is Tohono O'odham for "Frog mountain." From the Tucson valley the Santa Catalinas look like a giant sleeping frog. Tohono O'odham pronounce the word “bah-bahd-do-ahg.” The word Tucson also came from the Tohono O'odham language: it roughly translates to “at the foot of the black hill.” View of the Santa Catalina Mountains in Arizona from Windy Point, elevation 6,700 feet. A rock popular with climber near Windy Point in Arizona’s Santa Catalina Mountains. Snow on the ski hill on Mount Lemmon, Arizona
December 6, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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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-...
Sign on US 41 in Houghton, Michigan, that says “Welxome to Houghton, established 1861, birthplace of professional hockey”
December 6, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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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.)
historicalmarker.bsky.social Historical Marker Ahead @historicalmarker.bsky.social · Nov 20
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
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historicalmarker.bsky.social Historical Marker Ahead @historicalmarker.bsky.social · Mar 26
My favorite markers have euphemisms, such as this one detailing a reason why Cleveland-Cliffs leader William Mather building the Gwinn, Mich., mining “model town” in 1906: “a desire to avoid labor strife.” As in, Upper Michigan elsewhere was a hotbed of unionizing: ruralinsights.org/content/lost...
Gwinn Model Town historical marker in Gwinn, Michigan. It reads: William Gwinn Mather, president of the Cleveland Cliffs Iron Company, oversaw the development of Gwinn in 1906. He was inspired by benevolence, a need to attract dependable workers, and the desire to avoid labor strife. Mather hired Boston landscape designer Warren H. Manning to plan Gwinn as a company town that provided housing and community services for residents. Manning included boulevards, plantings, and extensive green space in his design, tenets of City Beautiful and Garden City movements, which were town planning trends of the day. Gwinn became a model for other company towns in the region, The mines closed in 1946 and company-owned properties were sold. Mather’s and Manning’s “Model Town” of Gwinn is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Erected 2010 by Michigan Historical Commission - Michigan Historical Center. Registered State Site. Even though the mine that launched the model town in Gwinn, Michigan, closed in 1946 (and K.I. Sawyer Air Force Base, its other economic reason for being, closed in 1995), the Model Town brand remains strong. Gwinn High School’s nickname is the Model Towners. The city limit sign for Gwinn, Michigan. The “worship in the church of your choice” reminds me of the jingle from “Tattoo” on the Who Sell Out: https://youtu.be/NyH1PKDNnoU?si=-eA67kWmI48W72T5
December 5, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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historicalmarker.bsky.social Historical Marker Ahead @historicalmarker.bsky.social · Dec 4
In 2013, Mary Beth Tinker returned to Harding Middle School in Des Moines to be honored for her role in a 1969 landmark speech case, and returned in 2015 for the unveiling of a mural. Yesterday I became the first outsider to see what the school put up in her honor. Because nobody else had asked. 1/
An honorary locker for Mary Beth Tinker at Harding Middle School in Des Moines, Iowa. It includes photos, summary of court arguments, and the anti-Vietnam War armband she wore in 1965 that got her suspended from school. She, her brother and another student were suspended from their schools for wearing the armbands. In 1969, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled free speech does not end at the schoolhouse door, ruling in their favor and saying students have free speech rights in school — unless it gets disruptive. A Harding Middle School mural of Mary Beth Tinker, as she appeared in 2013, with the anti-Vietnam War armband she wore to that school in 1965, which led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Tinker v Des Moines in 1969. A framed explanation of the murals at Harding Middle School in Des Moines. The portion about Mary Beth Tinker reads: The black and white portrait of Mary Beth Tinker is a direct tribute to Harding's national historical significance in the Tinker v. Des Moines Supreme Court case in which Mary Beth Tinker, a then student at Warren G Harding Middle School, and other students fought for the freedom of expression for students and set new horizons for the constitutional application of an individual's right to express themselves. A plaque near the murals at Harding Middle School, Des Moines. It reads: Harding students collaborate with commissioned Community Graffiti Artists LETER and As Phate of the Scarce Element Crew to create this graffiti mural in the spring of 2015. Students applied their learning of themes in civics and literacy to represent the significance their education and Harding Middle School has in their lives. Mary Beth Tinker, featured on the south wall of the mural, was a student at Warren G. Harding Middle School in the 1960's. She and her peers fought for the freedom of expression for students and set new horizons for the constitutional application of our First Amendment rights. In December 2015, Mary Beth Tinker returned to Harding Middle School to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Tinker v. Des Moines Supreme Court case. This mural is sponsored by the Turnaround Arts Community Partnership Funds.
December 5, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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historicalmarker.bsky.social Historical Marker Ahead @historicalmarker.bsky.social · Jun 16
In NBA Finals-adjacent history, the land of the Pacers was acquired by treaty in 1818, 2 years after Indiana statehood. Natives got annuities, goods and land elsewhere (not for long). Here’s a marker in Delphi, on the north edge of the territory by the Wabash River indianahistory.org/blog/a-myria...
New Purchase Boundary (Treaty of St Mary’s) historical marker in Delphi, Indiana. It reads: In October 1818, Purchasing Commissioners Lewis Cass, Benjamin Parke and Governor Jonathan Jennings acquired Indian claims on the land shown on this marker. About one-third of modern Indiana was involved in this transaction. Erected 1966 by the Indiana Sesquicentennial Commission. (Markers with the same language, and posted the same year, are also in Fowler and Marion, Indiana.) Map on the New Purchase Boundary historical marker in Delphi, Indiana, showing the land acquired for the state of Indiana. In 1825, 7 years after the treaty was signed, Indiana created the city of Indianapolis in the central part of the new territory for the purpose of moving its state capital there from Corydon, in southern Indiana.
December 5, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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Rhinelander, Wisconsin: Outside the Oneida County Courthouse sits a marker erected in 1969 that celebrates a landmark in zoning, which currently stands as the savior — and ruination — of how we live. www3.uwsp.edu/cnr-ap/clue/...
First rural zoning ordinance, Oneida County, Wisconsin
December 5, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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The Kramer of this pair of Central Michigan legends just died at age 96. You might remember Roy Kramer better for his long run as SEC (the football one) commissioner www.secsports.com/news/2025/12...
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For you MACtion fans, here are the Kramer-Deromedi as you see on the Central Michigan football field: Roy Kramer, coach of the 1974 D-II champs, and Herb Deromedi, its all-time wins leader as coach. These pics were taken in May 2025 after my son’s graduation. Also, the stadium’s name is Kelly-Shorts
Marker for the statue of football coach Roy Kramer at Central Michigan University. It reads: Roy Kramer Head Coach 1967-77 1974 National Coach of the Year 1974 National Championship Coaching Record of 83-32-2 Statute of former football coach Roy Kramer at Central Michigan University. Marker for the statue of former Central Michigan football coach Herb Deromedi. It reads: Head coach 1978-93 College Football Hall of Fame inductee CMU’s all-time coaching wins leader Three MAC championships Statue of former football coach Herb Deromedi at Central Michigan University
December 6, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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The Kramer of this pair of Central Michigan legends just died at age 96. You might remember Roy Kramer better for his long run as SEC (the football one) commissioner www.secsports.com/news/2025/12...
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For you MACtion fans, here are the Kramer-Deromedi as you see on the Central Michigan football field: Roy Kramer, coach of the 1974 D-II champs, and Herb Deromedi, its all-time wins leader as coach. These pics were taken in May 2025 after my son’s graduation. Also, the stadium’s name is Kelly-Shorts
Marker for the statue of football coach Roy Kramer at Central Michigan University. It reads: Roy Kramer Head Coach 1967-77 1974 National Coach of the Year 1974 National Championship Coaching Record of 83-32-2 Statute of former football coach Roy Kramer at Central Michigan University. Marker for the statue of former Central Michigan football coach Herb Deromedi. It reads: Head coach 1978-93 College Football Hall of Fame inductee CMU’s all-time coaching wins leader Three MAC championships Statue of former football coach Herb Deromedi at Central Michigan University
December 6, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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When you’re committed to the bit
My most-used words on BlueSky. Of course, historical and marker are the top two
December 5, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Sports and religion don’t mix except when a Presbyterian minister invents the game of basketball at a Young Men’s Christian Association gym and is then spread across the U.S. at other YMCA gyms
“13 original rules of basketball” display attached to Allen Fieldhouse, University of Kansas. James Naismith, inventor of basketball, served as Kansas’ basketball coach. Intersection of Naismith and Allen Fieldhouse drives on the University of Kansas campus Cradle of Basketball historical marker on the former site of the Crawfordsville, Indiana, YMCA. It reads: In 1892 the game of basketball was brought to Crawfordsville from its birthplace in Massachusetts by Rev. Nicholas McCay, General Secretary of the Crawfordsville YMCA that was located on this site in what would become known as the Terminal Building. Teams from Crawfordsville and Montgomery County schools and Wabash College first played the game here. Over the years, the game of basketball evolved into “Hoosier Hysteria” culminating every year with the Indiana High School Basketball State Tournament Finals and the NCAA National Finals. Crawfordsville won the first IHSAA State Basketball Championship in 1911. Wingate won the State Championship in 1913 and 1914. The first eight IHSAA State Basketball Championships were won by schools located within 30 miles of Crawfordsville making this region the “Cradle of Basketball” in Indiana and contributing significantly to the development of the game nationally. Wabash College was instrumental in promoting basketball on the college level. Erected 2011 by The Basketball Heritage Project, Inc., The Montgomery County Basketball Hall of Fame, Inc., and Friends of BHP and MCBHF.
December 3, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Good that this is back, and may I note again that Eagle Scouts have done a lot to put up historical markers all over.
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The community surrounding Deer Lake on the North Babylon-West Islip border banded together when Kadyn Neale's Eagle Scout project, which he dedicated to his late father, was vandalized.

On the effort and the return of the historical marker, via @newsday.bsky.social ⏬
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Community restores Deer Lake historical sign after vandalism
Kadyn Neale's Eagle Scout project, which he dedicated to his father, Dave Neale, was vandalized in August.
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December 5, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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People told me that participation trophies were out of control and ruining our national fabric when I was a youth sports blogger and, honestly, I should have listened. www.forbes.com/sites/bobcoo...
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this shit is just beyond parody, man
December 5, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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So they say
Montego Bay
Is less than
90 miles away
alshipley.bsky.social Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 1d
this looks like it should be the cover of 'A Reggae Tribute to Tonight's The Night'
December 5, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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historicalmarker.bsky.social Historical Marker Ahead @historicalmarker.bsky.social · Mar 26
My favorite markers have euphemisms, such as this one detailing a reason why Cleveland-Cliffs leader William Mather building the Gwinn, Mich., mining “model town” in 1906: “a desire to avoid labor strife.” As in, Upper Michigan elsewhere was a hotbed of unionizing: ruralinsights.org/content/lost...
Gwinn Model Town historical marker in Gwinn, Michigan. It reads: William Gwinn Mather, president of the Cleveland Cliffs Iron Company, oversaw the development of Gwinn in 1906. He was inspired by benevolence, a need to attract dependable workers, and the desire to avoid labor strife. Mather hired Boston landscape designer Warren H. Manning to plan Gwinn as a company town that provided housing and community services for residents. Manning included boulevards, plantings, and extensive green space in his design, tenets of City Beautiful and Garden City movements, which were town planning trends of the day. Gwinn became a model for other company towns in the region, The mines closed in 1946 and company-owned properties were sold. Mather’s and Manning’s “Model Town” of Gwinn is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Erected 2010 by Michigan Historical Commission - Michigan Historical Center. Registered State Site. Even though the mine that launched the model town in Gwinn, Michigan, closed in 1946 (and K.I. Sawyer Air Force Base, its other economic reason for being, closed in 1995), the Model Town brand remains strong. Gwinn High School’s nickname is the Model Towners. The city limit sign for Gwinn, Michigan. The “worship in the church of your choice” reminds me of the jingle from “Tattoo” on the Who Sell Out: https://youtu.be/NyH1PKDNnoU?si=-eA67kWmI48W72T5
December 5, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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historicalmarker.bsky.social Historical Marker Ahead @historicalmarker.bsky.social · Dec 4
In 2013, Mary Beth Tinker returned to Harding Middle School in Des Moines to be honored for her role in a 1969 landmark speech case, and returned in 2015 for the unveiling of a mural. Yesterday I became the first outsider to see what the school put up in her honor. Because nobody else had asked. 1/
An honorary locker for Mary Beth Tinker at Harding Middle School in Des Moines, Iowa. It includes photos, summary of court arguments, and the anti-Vietnam War armband she wore in 1965 that got her suspended from school. She, her brother and another student were suspended from their schools for wearing the armbands. In 1969, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled free speech does not end at the schoolhouse door, ruling in their favor and saying students have free speech rights in school — unless it gets disruptive. A Harding Middle School mural of Mary Beth Tinker, as she appeared in 2013, with the anti-Vietnam War armband she wore to that school in 1965, which led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Tinker v Des Moines in 1969. A framed explanation of the murals at Harding Middle School in Des Moines. The portion about Mary Beth Tinker reads: The black and white portrait of Mary Beth Tinker is a direct tribute to Harding's national historical significance in the Tinker v. Des Moines Supreme Court case in which Mary Beth Tinker, a then student at Warren G Harding Middle School, and other students fought for the freedom of expression for students and set new horizons for the constitutional application of an individual's right to express themselves. A plaque near the murals at Harding Middle School, Des Moines. It reads: Harding students collaborate with commissioned Community Graffiti Artists LETER and As Phate of the Scarce Element Crew to create this graffiti mural in the spring of 2015. Students applied their learning of themes in civics and literacy to represent the significance their education and Harding Middle School has in their lives. Mary Beth Tinker, featured on the south wall of the mural, was a student at Warren G. Harding Middle School in the 1960's. She and her peers fought for the freedom of expression for students and set new horizons for the constitutional application of our First Amendment rights. In December 2015, Mary Beth Tinker returned to Harding Middle School to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Tinker v. Des Moines Supreme Court case. This mural is sponsored by the Turnaround Arts Community Partnership Funds.
December 5, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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historicalmarker.bsky.social Historical Marker Ahead @historicalmarker.bsky.social · Jun 16
In NBA Finals-adjacent history, the land of the Pacers was acquired by treaty in 1818, 2 years after Indiana statehood. Natives got annuities, goods and land elsewhere (not for long). Here’s a marker in Delphi, on the north edge of the territory by the Wabash River indianahistory.org/blog/a-myria...
New Purchase Boundary (Treaty of St Mary’s) historical marker in Delphi, Indiana. It reads: In October 1818, Purchasing Commissioners Lewis Cass, Benjamin Parke and Governor Jonathan Jennings acquired Indian claims on the land shown on this marker. About one-third of modern Indiana was involved in this transaction. Erected 1966 by the Indiana Sesquicentennial Commission. (Markers with the same language, and posted the same year, are also in Fowler and Marion, Indiana.) Map on the New Purchase Boundary historical marker in Delphi, Indiana, showing the land acquired for the state of Indiana. In 1825, 7 years after the treaty was signed, Indiana created the city of Indianapolis in the central part of the new territory for the purpose of moving its state capital there from Corydon, in southern Indiana.
December 5, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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historicalmarker.bsky.social Historical Marker Ahead @historicalmarker.bsky.social · Mar 9
Rhinelander, Wisconsin: Outside the Oneida County Courthouse sits a marker erected in 1969 that celebrates a landmark in zoning, which currently stands as the savior — and ruination — of how we live. www3.uwsp.edu/cnr-ap/clue/...
First rural zoning ordinance, Oneida County, Wisconsin
December 5, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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A tradition unlike any other: the U.S. Supreme Court
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The Old Courthouse in St. Louis, now part of Gateway Arch National Park, is noted as the site of slave auctions and where Dred and Harriet Scott filed suit for their freedom. You may know how that turned out.
Old Courthouse, St Louis, now part of Gateway Arch National Park Dred and Harriet Scott statue, Old Courthouse, St. Louis. Historical marker on the Dred and Harriett Scott statue, St. Louis. It reads: Dred and Harriet Scott filed suit for their freedom at this courthouse in 1846. Their case reached the United States Supreme Court and was decided in 1857. The court ruled that the Scotts and all African Americans were not citizen of the United States. Opposition to the decision was one of the causes of the Civil War and led to the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution. The Scotts’ struggle for freedom stands as a defining moment in the history of the Civil Rights Movement. Harry Weber, Sculptor Erected 2012 by Dred Scott Heritage Foundation. “Sold on the Steps of Justice” marker, across the street from the Old Courthouse, St Louis. It reads: Auctions were once a common site on the stately steps of the Old Courthouse in front of you. The court organized property sales when people went bankrupt or died without a will. Between 1839 and 1862, the court sold more than 500 enslaved men, women, and children here. Though the issue of slavery divided people, auctions like these were common at courthouses throughout the state. Missouri outlawed slavery in early 1865, just a few months before the Civil War ended. Erected by National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior.
December 5, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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This can apply to historical markers as well as apologies for our sins: “These public accountings for slavery are more than a sidebar to a main story about the nation. They are THE story. Through them, we discover that history is not merely the past; it is a current running through our own time.”
December 4, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Whalley World War 1 Memorial & 1725 Old Gammer School Lancashire UK. youtube.com/shorts/SLaUx...
Whalley World War 1 Memorial & 1725 Old Gammer School Lancashire UK
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December 4, 2025 at 6:19 PM