@jeffwM to News • 2 months agoHistorical markers are everywhere in America. Some get history wrongwww.npr.orgmessage-square4arrow-up135arrow-down14cross-posted to: history
arrow-up131arrow-down1external-linkHistorical markers are everywhere in America. Some get history wrongwww.npr.org@jeffwM to News • 2 months agomessage-square4cross-posted to: history
minus-squareFlying Squidlink6•2 months agoIt did take 100 years to go up, but it was about time someone put this historical marker up in my town. I was there for the ceremony. Unsurprisingly, there were a bunch of cops at the edge of the modest crowd looking intimidating. Text transcribed here: https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=226136 More depressingly, it’s in the same park with another historical marker- that one saying it was the former site of an indigenous tribe’s village.
It did take 100 years to go up, but it was about time someone put this historical marker up in my town. I was there for the ceremony. Unsurprisingly, there were a bunch of cops at the edge of the modest crowd looking intimidating.
Text transcribed here: https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=226136
More depressingly, it’s in the same park with another historical marker- that one saying it was the former site of an indigenous tribe’s village.