How many of us have toured our locale in order to learn the history of the place?
Happened upon this site and was amazed at what I did not know. Searchable and, if you know of a marker that should be included, you can suggest additions. So many structures have been built over but the markers noting them are there to discover. And what I get is that in each case the marker had to be thought noteworthy. It had to be proposed, designed, determined, and paid for, as well as placed. Sometimes this was done because what had happened there was over or what had been built there was being taken down.
To quote the site, historical markers lead us to "public history cast in metal, carved on stone, or embedded in resin."
So, perhaps you are standing on an old burial ground, or the location of the school your great grandparents went to is marked - or still standing.
Worth exploring!
