Historical Marker Ahead
@historicalmarker.bsky.social
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...
Wondering if part of the reason for placing a historical marker at this fountain was to clarify that this isn’t the original
November 27, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Wondering if part of the reason for placing a historical marker at this fountain was to clarify that this isn’t the original
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Sojourner Truth died in Battle Creek, Michigan, on this day in 1883, and is buried near cereal royalty — the Kelloggs and the Posts. She arrived in Battle Creek to go to the famed Kellogg Sanitorium.
Truth kept up her activism in Battle Creek, and kept Kellogg as her personal physician. (After Truth’s death, Kellogg became a raving eugenicist.) She is buried in Battle Creek’s Oak Hill Cemetery, along with a few of her kids and grandkids, and Post, and many Kelloggs 6/end
November 26, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Sojourner Truth died in Battle Creek, Michigan, on this day in 1883, and is buried near cereal royalty — the Kelloggs and the Posts. She arrived in Battle Creek to go to the famed Kellogg Sanitorium.
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Sojourner Truth died in Battle Creek, Michigan, on this day in 1883. She went there for the famed Kellogg Sanitorium and kept Dr. Kellogg as her personal physician. She’s buried in Battle Creek and is honored in a downtown park. The thread below goes into more detail on Truth and Dr. Kellogg.
Battle Creek, Mich.: Sojourner Truth — abolitionist, women’s and African-American civil rights activist, champion of temperance — spent her last 27 years in Michigan, and is buried and honored there. But how did she end up the place that became Cereal City? A story thread! 1/
November 26, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Sojourner Truth died in Battle Creek, Michigan, on this day in 1883. She went there for the famed Kellogg Sanitorium and kept Dr. Kellogg as her personal physician. She’s buried in Battle Creek and is honored in a downtown park. The thread below goes into more detail on Truth and Dr. Kellogg.
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Here’s to you, Eagle Scouts who make historical markers their project. For example, an Eagle Scout was behind a marker for the namesake of a Gladstone, Mich., park where I spent a lot of time as a kid. It was by my Grandma’s house, near a Lake Michigan bay in the Upper Peninsula.
November 26, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Here’s to you, Eagle Scouts who make historical markers their project. For example, an Eagle Scout was behind a marker for the namesake of a Gladstone, Mich., park where I spent a lot of time as a kid. It was by my Grandma’s house, near a Lake Michigan bay in the Upper Peninsula.
Until today, there had only been 2.5 inches of snow in Michigan’s northernmost county. Today, as of this skeet, it’s added a fresh 16 inches, with more to come. Plus 55 mph winds. Keep track here and visualize the rise on the gauge below: www.keweenawcountyonline.org/snowfall2.php
I’ve seen enough: the giant snow gauge as you enter Keweenaw County, Michigan, the upper peninsula of the Upper Peninsula, will stop at an above-average 312.5 inches for 2024-25. I took this in April 2022–before last year’s winter set the mark for driest. www.keweenawcountyonline.org/snowfall2.php
November 27, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Until today, there had only been 2.5 inches of snow in Michigan’s northernmost county. Today, as of this skeet, it’s added a fresh 16 inches, with more to come. Plus 55 mph winds. Keep track here and visualize the rise on the gauge below: www.keweenawcountyonline.org/snowfall2.php
Here’s to you, Eagle Scouts who make historical markers their project. For example, an Eagle Scout was behind a marker for the namesake of a Gladstone, Mich., park where I spent a lot of time as a kid. It was by my Grandma’s house, near a Lake Michigan bay in the Upper Peninsula.
November 26, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Here’s to you, Eagle Scouts who make historical markers their project. For example, an Eagle Scout was behind a marker for the namesake of a Gladstone, Mich., park where I spent a lot of time as a kid. It was by my Grandma’s house, near a Lake Michigan bay in the Upper Peninsula.
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Petersburg
"Howard Baugh (1920-2008) was born and raised in Petersburg. He graduated from what is now Virginia State University in 1941, joined the U.S. Army Air Corps, and completed pilot training at Tuskegee Army Air Field in 1942. Deployed to Sicily with the 99th Fighter Squadron..."
"Howard Baugh (1920-2008) was born and raised in Petersburg. He graduated from what is now Virginia State University in 1941, joined the U.S. Army Air Corps, and completed pilot training at Tuskegee Army Air Field in 1942. Deployed to Sicily with the 99th Fighter Squadron..."
November 26, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Petersburg
"Howard Baugh (1920-2008) was born and raised in Petersburg. He graduated from what is now Virginia State University in 1941, joined the U.S. Army Air Corps, and completed pilot training at Tuskegee Army Air Field in 1942. Deployed to Sicily with the 99th Fighter Squadron..."
"Howard Baugh (1920-2008) was born and raised in Petersburg. He graduated from what is now Virginia State University in 1941, joined the U.S. Army Air Corps, and completed pilot training at Tuskegee Army Air Field in 1942. Deployed to Sicily with the 99th Fighter Squadron..."
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Lynchburg
"Following Hampton Institute’s principle of uplifting her race through self-help, Pride was a passionate advocate of African American and Virginia Indian education. In Lynchburg, she provided scholarships for many young women seeking higher education and established sewing and cooking..."
"Following Hampton Institute’s principle of uplifting her race through self-help, Pride was a passionate advocate of African American and Virginia Indian education. In Lynchburg, she provided scholarships for many young women seeking higher education and established sewing and cooking..."
November 26, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Lynchburg
"Following Hampton Institute’s principle of uplifting her race through self-help, Pride was a passionate advocate of African American and Virginia Indian education. In Lynchburg, she provided scholarships for many young women seeking higher education and established sewing and cooking..."
"Following Hampton Institute’s principle of uplifting her race through self-help, Pride was a passionate advocate of African American and Virginia Indian education. In Lynchburg, she provided scholarships for many young women seeking higher education and established sewing and cooking..."
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This should really be on a T-shirt.
November 24, 2025 at 7:12 PM
This should really be on a T-shirt.
Sojourner Truth died in Battle Creek, Michigan, on this day in 1883. She went there for the famed Kellogg Sanitorium and kept Dr. Kellogg as her personal physician. She’s buried in Battle Creek and is honored in a downtown park. The thread below goes into more detail on Truth and Dr. Kellogg.
Battle Creek, Mich.: Sojourner Truth — abolitionist, women’s and African-American civil rights activist, champion of temperance — spent her last 27 years in Michigan, and is buried and honored there. But how did she end up the place that became Cereal City? A story thread! 1/
November 26, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Sojourner Truth died in Battle Creek, Michigan, on this day in 1883. She went there for the famed Kellogg Sanitorium and kept Dr. Kellogg as her personal physician. She’s buried in Battle Creek and is honored in a downtown park. The thread below goes into more detail on Truth and Dr. Kellogg.
Sojourner Truth died in Battle Creek, Michigan, on this day in 1883, and is buried near cereal royalty — the Kelloggs and the Posts. She arrived in Battle Creek to go to the famed Kellogg Sanitorium.
Truth kept up her activism in Battle Creek, and kept Kellogg as her personal physician. (After Truth’s death, Kellogg became a raving eugenicist.) She is buried in Battle Creek’s Oak Hill Cemetery, along with a few of her kids and grandkids, and Post, and many Kelloggs 6/end
November 26, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Sojourner Truth died in Battle Creek, Michigan, on this day in 1883, and is buried near cereal royalty — the Kelloggs and the Posts. She arrived in Battle Creek to go to the famed Kellogg Sanitorium.
Thanks to @akgrl33.bsky.social for the tip! One interesting thing not on the marker of this influential Black man in Virginia after the Civil War was his father didn’t want him on the state’s new constitutional committee because he thought he was too radical encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/tayl...
November 26, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Thanks to @akgrl33.bsky.social for the tip! One interesting thing not on the marker of this influential Black man in Virginia after the Civil War was his father didn’t want him on the state’s new constitutional committee because he thought he was too radical encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/tayl...
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Marion Mahony Griffin Beach 💙💙💙
November 23, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Marion Mahony Griffin Beach 💙💙💙
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Pleasant Ridge & Ridge Road
"Royal Oak Township," Oakland County Michigan
Ridge Road is an old pathway of the Saginaw Trail network of roads developed by the indigenous people (mostly Ojibwe) who traveled regularly between the Detroit River and Saginaw Bay.
"Royal Oak Township," Oakland County Michigan
Ridge Road is an old pathway of the Saginaw Trail network of roads developed by the indigenous people (mostly Ojibwe) who traveled regularly between the Detroit River and Saginaw Bay.
November 23, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Pleasant Ridge & Ridge Road
"Royal Oak Township," Oakland County Michigan
Ridge Road is an old pathway of the Saginaw Trail network of roads developed by the indigenous people (mostly Ojibwe) who traveled regularly between the Detroit River and Saginaw Bay.
"Royal Oak Township," Oakland County Michigan
Ridge Road is an old pathway of the Saginaw Trail network of roads developed by the indigenous people (mostly Ojibwe) who traveled regularly between the Detroit River and Saginaw Bay.
There were plenty of doomed white people who died trying to go west in the 1800s, so your priority for memorials go to those famous for resorting to cannibalism.
November 25, 2025 at 10:37 PM
There were plenty of doomed white people who died trying to go west in the 1800s, so your priority for memorials go to those famous for resorting to cannibalism.
In a Stevens Point, Wisc., antique store I found “Battle of Hymn of Lt. Calley,” a 1971 single, the most popular of 91 My Lai songs. It got to No. 37, which means Casey Kasem would’ve played it on his AT40 show. The artist was an Alabama DJ whose band was stolen glory www.pbs.org/wgbh/america...
November 25, 2025 at 8:56 PM
In a Stevens Point, Wisc., antique store I found “Battle of Hymn of Lt. Calley,” a 1971 single, the most popular of 91 My Lai songs. It got to No. 37, which means Casey Kasem would’ve played it on his AT40 show. The artist was an Alabama DJ whose band was stolen glory www.pbs.org/wgbh/america...
As John says — let’s get on out there and find some history!
The Mystery of Ancient Standing Stones Oxenhope West Yorkshire UK. youtube.com/shorts/ce04_...
The Mystery of Ancient Standing Stones Oxenhope West Yorkshire UK
YouTube video by John's History & Detecting Adventures
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November 25, 2025 at 6:12 PM
As John says — let’s get on out there and find some history!
One of my kids just got me this bumper magnet for my birthday, which isn’t for a few days yet. I’m still coming to terms with a couple of steel firms before I head into a hurricane west wind, knowing in this life we can’t put enough miles behind us to make Whitefish Bay.
November 25, 2025 at 5:23 PM
One of my kids just got me this bumper magnet for my birthday, which isn’t for a few days yet. I’m still coming to terms with a couple of steel firms before I head into a hurricane west wind, knowing in this life we can’t put enough miles behind us to make Whitefish Bay.
The last survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre just died www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
Tulsa, Okla.: On May 31, 1921, the Tulsa Race Massacre began. For all it did to kill the neighborhood, its people and its Black Wall Street status, Greenwood rebuilt. What finished it off was a bureaucratic destruction: building I-244 through the middle of Greenwood in 1975. It’s named for MLK Jr.
November 25, 2025 at 4:11 AM
The last survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre just died www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
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Dude who just got the SV Bank bailout two years ago is back banging the cup. It’s a tell.
November 24, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Dude who just got the SV Bank bailout two years ago is back banging the cup. It’s a tell.
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still my favorite ebay purchase of all time
November 24, 2025 at 8:29 PM
still my favorite ebay purchase of all time
This is incredible, and great job by @tillcenter.bsky.social for making this happen. Related:
1. If you haven’t read Wright Thompson’s “The Barn,” do so.
2. Nancy Pelosi, Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan, Sir Patrick Stewart and Chuck Norris are among those who’d be older than Emmett Till if he were alive.
1. If you haven’t read Wright Thompson’s “The Barn,” do so.
2. Nancy Pelosi, Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan, Sir Patrick Stewart and Chuck Norris are among those who’d be older than Emmett Till if he were alive.
The Emmett Till Interpretive Center has purchased and protected the barn near Drew, MS, where Emmett Till was brutally beaten and murdered. It will be preserved not merely as a structure, but as sacred ground. Read our open letter here: www.emmett-till.org/barn
November 24, 2025 at 6:32 PM
This is incredible, and great job by @tillcenter.bsky.social for making this happen. Related:
1. If you haven’t read Wright Thompson’s “The Barn,” do so.
2. Nancy Pelosi, Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan, Sir Patrick Stewart and Chuck Norris are among those who’d be older than Emmett Till if he were alive.
1. If you haven’t read Wright Thompson’s “The Barn,” do so.
2. Nancy Pelosi, Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan, Sir Patrick Stewart and Chuck Norris are among those who’d be older than Emmett Till if he were alive.
I went to the Ernie Pyle School
of Journalism, located in Ernie Pyle Hall, at Indiana University. It got folded into a media school, which tried to kill the printed Indiana Daily Student for committing journalism, and Ernie Pyle Hall is now a visitors’ center. bsquarebulletin.com/indiana-dail...
of Journalism, located in Ernie Pyle Hall, at Indiana University. It got folded into a media school, which tried to kill the printed Indiana Daily Student for committing journalism, and Ernie Pyle Hall is now a visitors’ center. bsquarebulletin.com/indiana-dail...
November 24, 2025 at 6:20 PM
I went to the Ernie Pyle School
of Journalism, located in Ernie Pyle Hall, at Indiana University. It got folded into a media school, which tried to kill the printed Indiana Daily Student for committing journalism, and Ernie Pyle Hall is now a visitors’ center. bsquarebulletin.com/indiana-dail...
of Journalism, located in Ernie Pyle Hall, at Indiana University. It got folded into a media school, which tried to kill the printed Indiana Daily Student for committing journalism, and Ernie Pyle Hall is now a visitors’ center. bsquarebulletin.com/indiana-dail...
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An ICE agent was caught removing a sign marking an ICE kidnapping in DC last week! Do we think he did it out of anger, embarrassment, or most appropriately shame? If you think what you’re doing is right, why are you trying to hide the evidence? 👀
November 24, 2025 at 2:49 PM
An ICE agent was caught removing a sign marking an ICE kidnapping in DC last week! Do we think he did it out of anger, embarrassment, or most appropriately shame? If you think what you’re doing is right, why are you trying to hide the evidence? 👀
Mr. President, you don’t know how to work my corner
(This plaque is at West Point)
(This plaque is at West Point)
Trump didn’t read before posting:
“OUR AMERICAN CODE OF MILITARY OBEDIENCE REQUIRES THAT, SHOULD ORDERS AND THE LAW EVER CONFLICT, OUR OFFICERS MUST OBEY THE LAW.”
“OUR AMERICAN CODE OF MILITARY OBEDIENCE REQUIRES THAT, SHOULD ORDERS AND THE LAW EVER CONFLICT, OUR OFFICERS MUST OBEY THE LAW.”
November 24, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Mr. President, you don’t know how to work my corner
(This plaque is at West Point)
(This plaque is at West Point)