Historical Markers are like Animal Crackers!

Work with me here.

So there you are, driving along, idly wondering if driving a more obnoxious car would get your more (or less?) notice from the police - and you don’t even realize you whiz past one of these:



Welcome to Historical Markers, where history is made not by scholars opining in an Ivory Tower, or politicians fussing in committee, but from the ground up, with all the stories, particulars, idiosyncrasies, and cultural uniqueness that comes with it.

State money doesn’t pay for historical markers, people do. Real people, raising money for real organizations, who think their piece of the world deserves a marker for being significant.


They raise the money, they write the text, and our own Tracy Power, Story Teller Emeritus, vets them. (That’s Emeritus by volume of stories, people, not by age.)

Think of markers like animal crackers – history for the modern age served up in bite-sized stories. And now the markers are all online in the newly launched Historical Marker Database, which is insanely addicting (just like animal crackers). Pick a town – any town! Pick a building – any building! You may get the horse or the elephant, you never know!

Make mine a llama. With pink icing.