Always Read the Plaque

Inscription:

Compañero estudiante:
Nunca olvides la sangre
generosa de los martires
universitarias caidos en
l>as gloriosas jornadas
de marzo y abril de 1962 que se inmolaron por darte
una patria mejor
5º aniversario – A.C.D.O.
Quezaltenango, 21 abril 1967

English translation:

Fellow student:
Never forget the blood that was spilled here by the university student martyrs that fell on those glorious days of March and April of 1962.
They sacrificed themselves to give you a better nation.
5th anniversary - ACDO
Quezaltenango, April 21, 1967

A brief Google search didn't turn up much information about the protests. The best I have is the brief summary on hmdb.org:

Regarding 1962 Student Protests in Quetzaltenango. In March and April, 1962 there were widespread protests throughout Guatemala against then-President General Ydigoras Fuentes, who was widely seen as having been elected in corrupt elections. There was also considerable anger for Guatemala having allowed the U.S. to train Cuban exiles in Guatemala for the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion. In this early phase of the Guatemalan civil conflict, that would go on until a formal peace treaty was signed in 1996, it was common for student protests to be met with intense violence by military forces, resulting in many student deaths. In future years the conflict would generally move away from urban centers and towards more rural areas.

https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=100773

Inscription:

The Salem Chapel, British Methodist Episcopal Church was the first Black church in St. Catharines. Originally known as the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the name was changed to reflect their loyalty to the British Empire. In 1793, the "Upper Canada Act Against Slavery" was passed, allowing Blacks aged 25 years and older freedom from slavery in Canada. This created a safe haven for African American runaway slaves and made Canada the destination for many who fled. As a result, hundreds of escaped slaves settled in St. Catharines and created a vibrant Black community.

The original church was a small log building that held about 70 members and was built on the land behind today's church. The freedom seekers who settled in St. Catharines constructed this church, dedicated in 1855, to replace the smaller one. Some of the original pews that they built are still in use on the balcony level. The BME Salem Chapel is also significant for its ties to Harriet Tubman, nicknamed "Black Moses". This brave freedom fighter was instrumental in freeing hundreds of slaves using the Underground Railroad system. Harriet Tubman called St.Catharines and the BME Church home for almost a decade. In 2000, this church became the first National Historic Site in St. Catharines.

Text on right side of marker:

1855
The BME Church is known for
its ties to Harriet Tubman,
a brave freedom-fighter
who freed hundreds of
slaves using the
Underground Railroad.

https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=75867

https://www.pc.gc.ca/apps/dfhd/page_nhs_eng.aspx?id=1900

Inscription:

For the first half of the twentieth century, the catboat was integral to the economy of the Cayman Islands and the daily life of Caymanians. Designed primarily for catching turtle far-out at sea and carrying them to schooners for shipment to market, it was also used for fishing close to shore, for transporting people and goods around the islands, and even as an ambulance. Most children learned their sailing skills in small catboats, and catboat races were a favorite recreational activity when people had time to spare. With the decline of turtling and the arrival in the Islands of automobiles and outboard motors, the catboat gradually fell into disuse. In the 1990's the establishment of the Maritime Heritage Foundation and the Cayman Catboat Club led to a revival of interest in this unique craft, and today the Caymanian catboat is celebrated as a living icon of Caymanian culture.

Here's the monument where the marker is placed:

https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=266531

And here is a Cayman catboat in use:

Inscription:

Confederate Soldier was shot here Oct. 14, 1861, as he tried to remove Union flag.

https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=57465

Inscription:

On April 21, 1966, members of the Mattachine Society, a pioneering gay rights organization, challenged a regulation that prohibited bars from serving LGBT people by staging a "Sip-In" at Julius', a bar with a large gay clientele.

With reporters and a photographer in tow, the activists announced that they were homosexuals, asked to be served, and were refused. This early gay rights action and the attendant publicity helped to raise awareness of widespread anti-LGBT discrimination and harassment. Julius' was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.

https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=198561

Inscription:

This pub has been granted the
James Joyce Pub Award
for being an authentic Irish pub

'A good puzzle would be to cross Ireland
without passing a pub.' Ulysses

James Joyce identified and described the
characteristic ambience of Dublin pub life
so successfully that the characters in Ulysses
may be fictional, but they are based on a
multitude of living beings, characters who
Joyce found in pubs just like this one.
This establishment remains an outstanding
example of the tradition which
Joyce immortalised in his works and is a
truly authentic public house which
throughout the years has retained
it's down to earth genuineness of
atmosphere, friendliness and
presence of good company.

James Joyce [signature]

Best Drinks Best Bar

https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=241142

This is another Stolpersteine plaque commemorating victims of Nazi extermination.

Inscription:

På Økern bodde
Molly Amalie
Rubinstein
Fødselsår 1913
Deportert 1942
Auschwitz
Drept 1.12.1942

English translation:

In Økern lived
Molly Amalie
Rubinstein
Born 1913
Deported 1942
Auschwitz
Killed December 1, 1942.

https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=262889

Inscription:

On March 28, 1979, and for several days thereafter — as a result of technical malfunctions and human error — Three Mile Island's Unit 2 Nuclear Generating Station was the scene of the nation’s worst commercial nuclear accident. Radiation was released, a part of the nuclear core was damaged, and thousands of residents evacuated the area. Events here would cause basic changes throughout the world’s nuclear power industry.

https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=900

Inscription:

Earl Scruggs was the most influential and most imitated banjo player in the world. On December 8, 1945. He joined Bill Monroe's band and helped give birth to bluegrass music when he introduced his innovative and exciting 2-finger style of playing 5-string banjo on WSM-Radio's Grand Ole Opry.

Before Earl's Opry debut, 5-string banjos had become widely thought of as stage props used only by comedians playing rowdy old-time styles. Earl's refined musicianship electrified audiences and banjo sales skyrocketed, his way of picking became known around the world as "Scruggs Style."

In early 1948, Earl and Lester Flatt formed a band that Earl's loving wife, Louise, began managing in 1966, "Flatt & Scruggs" became one of the most successful country music acts of the era. In 1962, Flatt & Scruggs provided the banjo-driven music for the theme song of the hit TV series, The Beverly Hillbillies. The 1967 film, Bonnie and Clyde, featured their 1949 recording of Earl's composition, "Foggy Mountain Breakdown."

Flatt & Scruggs split up in 1959 and Earl found many new fans when he bridged generations and musical genres by forming the "Earl Scruggs Revue" with sons Gary and Randy. It was a pioneering band in merging country and bluegrass sounds with elements from rock music. Youngest son, Steve, also became a musician and joined the Revue.

In his latter years, Earl's musical journey continued with his "Family & Friends" band, standing ovations awaited him at every turn, and Earl remained the modest and unpretentious man he had always been throughout his legendary career.

Earl Scruggs, who was also a gifted guitarist, was a true icon in the music world and an inspiration to countless musicians, though his strings are now silent, echoes of his sparkling Scruggs-style sound will linger in the air forever.

https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=163420

Inscription:

Cabins once lined roadsides in the Delta
Known as shotgun shacks, these houses were common in the Mississippi Delta near agricultural fields. Each home featured three to five rooms with no hallway just a series of doors leading from room to room. They were called shotgun houses because you could shoot a shotgun through the front door and it would go out the back door without hitting a wall.

Sharecroppers lived here
From 1865 until the 1960s, sharecropping was used in the Delta. A plantation owner would supply a home to a sharecropper's family. In exchange, the workers (both black and white) would farm "on shares" and settle up with the landowner at the end of the season. Once the owner deducted expenses, however, the families received little profit.

Comforts were limited
With no insulation, these single-wall houses were often freezing in winter and blazing hot in summer. Pages of newspaper were used as wallpaper, adhered with glue made from flour.

Mechanical cotton pickers replaced sharecroppers
When workers moved north to find better paying jobs in the 1930s, owners discovered faster, cheaper ways to harvest their cotton. The Rust mechanical cotton picker (above), introduced in 1935, picked in an hour what four workers would need a day to gather.

Few shotgun shacks remain
This symbol of the South is rapidly disappearing. This shack was located on the Helena Plantation before being moved here. Though less than half the size of a complete cabin, this home depicts the type where many Southerners were born, including McKinley Morganfield (Muddy Waters), who lived in a shotgun shack until he was three.

https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=157609

Inscription:

G.F. "Betico” Croes
1938 - 1986

Luchado incansabel pa Aruba su Status Aparte.
Pueblo a honre cu e titulo di "Libertador"

Fought for the right of "Status Aparte” for Aruba
~ autonomous status in the Dutch Kingdom ~
The public honored him with the title of
Aruba's "Liberator"

https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=119528

He had a sad end. From Wikipedia:

Gilberto François "Betico" Croes (Papiamento pronunciation: [beˈtiko kɾus]; 25 January 1938 – 26 November 1986) was an Aruban political activist who was a proponent for Aruba's separation from the Netherlands Antilles. This eventually occurred in 1986, but following a car accident on 31 December 1985 (the night of status aparte), Croes lapsed into a coma and never became conscious to see his accomplishment.

Inscription (High Water lines from floods are recorded on the display):

— 5 ft

2010 -
1979 -
1976 -
1955 -

— 6 ft

1984 -
1985 -

— 7 ft

1937 / 1996 -
1972

— 8 ft

— 9 ft

1942 -

— 10 ft

1936 -

— 11 ft

100 year (as of 2020)

— 12 ft

— 13 ft

— 14 ft

500 year (as of 2020)

— 15 ft
(NAVD88)

https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=204401

Inscription:

Constitution Elm
On this spot, beneath the shade of the elm the Constitution of Indiana was framed in June, 1816

This tree lived until 1925, attaining a height of fifty feet. A trunk diameter of five feet and a spread of one hundred thirty- two feet.
This monument was erected in 1936

https://www.thisisindiana.org/directory/constitution-elm/

Inscription:

Während des nationalsozialistischen Regimes wurden politisch unliebsame und jüdische Richter, Staatsanwälte und andere Bedienstete entlassen und durch angepasste oder regimetreue ersetzt, um die nationalsozialistische Herrschaft durchzusetzen und zu sichern.

English translation:

During the National Socialist regime, politically unpopular and Jewish judges, prosecutors and others employees were dismissed and were replaced by those who were more pliant or loyal to the regime in order to secure and enforce National Socialist rule.

https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=234884

Inscription:

On October 26, 1838 about 800 Potawatomi Indians being forcibly removed from Indiana camped on the river bank opposite Lexington. They ferried the Missouri River on October 27 and were marched on to Northeast Kansas.

This monument is in memory of
Ka-beam-sa
by the Kabance Family
August 2000

https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=90921

Inscription:

La Embajada de la República de El Salvador hace un justo reconocimiento y merecido homenaje al presbítero y doctor salvadoreño
José Matías Delgado
Padre de la patria, héroe y prócer nacional de la independencia de Centro América
Lima, Perú 13 mayo de 2014

English translation:

The Embassy of the Republic of El Salvador makes a just recognition and deserved tribute to the Salvadoran priest and doctor
José Matías Delgado
Father of the nation, hero and national leader of the independence of Central America
Lima, Peru May 13, 2014

https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=192312

This guy's Wikipedia page is a good read. He was a revolutionary priest with massive popular support.

On 5 May 1824, he was named the first bishop of San Salvador by the local civil authorities and not by the Catholic Church. This entangled him in a serious and long-lasting controversy with the Archbishop of Guatemala and with Popes Leo XII and Pius VIII, which lasted until his death.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Mat%C3%ADas_Delgado

This is one in a series of Stolpersteine plaques commemorating victims of Nazi extermination.

Inscription:

Hier wohnte
Margot Frank
JB. 1926
Flucht 1933 Holland
Interniert Westerbork
Deportiert 1944
Bergen-Belsen
Ermordet märz 1945

English translation:

Here lived Margot Frank. Born 1926. Fled to Holland in 1933. Interned at Westerbork. Deported in 1944 to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Murdered in March, 1945.

https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=242655

Inscription:

An dieser Stelle wurde 1792 ein Missionskreuz In Holz errichtet. Dieses wurde 1897 durch eine Kreuzigungsgruppe in Stein ersetzt, die 1941 in den Kriegswirren entfernt wurde und verloren ging. Durch die Initiative der Bürgergemeinschaft Henger Herrjotts Fott wurde am 27.8.1989 diese neue Kreuzigungsgruppe errichtet und eingeweiht. Geschaffen von Bonifatius Stirnberg.

English translation:

In 1792 a mission cross of wood was placed at this location. This was replaced in 1897 by a crucifixion group in stone, which was removed in 1941 and lost in the chaos of war. Through the initiative of the Henger Herrjotts Fott (“Behind the Lord’s Buttocks”) society, this new crucifixion tableau was erected and inaugurated on August 27, 1989. Created by Bonifatius Stirnberg.

https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=237189

Inscription:

On May 10, 1858, American abolitionist John Brown held the last in a series of clandestine meetings here at First Baptist Church. Brown planned to establish an independent republic within the United States and wage guerrilla war to liberate the South from slavery. He came to Upper Canada to recruit blacks who had fled here in the wake of the Fugitive Slave Law (1850). On October 16, 1859, Brown and 21 supporters seized the government arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, and held it against counter-attack for two days. Brown, executed as a traitor, became for many a martyr and hero. His actions escalated the tensions between North and South that led to civil war in 1861.

French Text:

Le 10 mai 1858, l'abolitionniste américain John Brown tient la dernière réunion d'une série de réunions clandestines ici à la First Baptist Church. Brown prévoit établir une république indépendante aux États-Unis et mener une guerre de partisans pour libérer le Sud de l'esclavage. Il vient au Haut-Canada recruter des Noirs qui s'étaient enfuis ici après l'adoption de la loi sur les esclaves fugitifs (1850). Le 16 octobre 1859, Brown et 21 partisans s'emparent de l'arsenal militaire à Harpers Ferry en Virginie et résistent aux contre-attaques pendant deux jours. Brown, qui est exécuté en tant que traître, devient pour beaucoup un martyr et un héros. Ses actions intensifient les tensions entre le Nord et le Sud qui aboutissent à la guerre de Sécession en 1861.

https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=71386

Inscription:

In the vicinity of this marker, a Flat Outline Map of the State would be exactly balanced.

In 1989, a curious seventh grader from the Caesar Rodney School District asked where the center of Delaware was located. With the help of his teacher and the Kent County Department of Planning, it was determined that the geographic center of the state was located approximately eleven miles south of Dover in the field just south of this marker, on the Killen Farm.

https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=39607

Inscription:

"Harmony"

Created by Japanese American artist, George Tsutakawa, is dedicated to the memory of over 7,600 people of Japanese ancestry who were imprisoned on the fairgounds from April to September of 1942.

This sculpture is a column made of dark bronze. Figures of men, women, and children are cut in silhouette into the sides of the column. The negative, open spaces form interesting patterns that shift as one examines the column from various angles.

"I wanted to depict people of all races and creeds living in harmony. Then these sad things won't be happening over and over again."

George Tsutakawa August 21, 1983

I pulled the pictures from this article about Japanese internment, particularly in the Pacific Northwest. I recommend it: https://www.worldwariimonuments.org/items/show/44

Here is the sculpture. The artist is the older man in white:

Inscription:

Kaibab Squirrel Area
Has been designated a
National Natural Landmark
This site possesses exceptional value as an illustration of the Nation's natural heritage and contributes to a better understanding of the environment.

1965
National Park Service United States Department of the Interior

https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=94912

To understand why it's interesting, refer to the Kaibab squirrel page on Wikipedia:

The Kaibab squirrel (Sciurus aberti kaibabensis) is a tassel-eared squirrel that lives in the Kaibab Plateau in the Southwest United States, in an area of 20 by 40 miles (32 by 64 km). The squirrel's habitat is confined entirely to the ponderosa pine forests of the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park and the northern section of Kaibab National Forest[1] around the town of Jacob Lake, Arizona. This squirrel is not found anywhere else in the world.

Inscription:

Mill Pond
Site of the sawmill built by John Selee in the 18th century and continued by his son, Nathan, a wizard who purportedly used satanic imps to run the mill at night.
Easton Conservation Commission
6.6 acres
Acquired in 1999

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/selee-satanic-mill-marker

Inscription:

The first lady of the early Colorado state was Rose (Brown) Wakely, better known by her stage name, Rose “Haydee”. The dark-eyed beauty came to Colorado in September, 1859 – and the miners fell in love with her at once. She became the most popular entertainer in Central City. Then, suddenly, she disappeared.

Now among her many admirers was Thomas Evans, a gambling man of rather “satanic good looks.” And it was suspicioned no coincidence that, on Tuesday, November 13, 1860 – just prior to a performance starring her, Rose and the gambling man were gone!

Following the town’s suspicions, Justice Downing issued a warrant “for the arrest of an individual who has abducted a young girl...for the basest of all imaginable purposes.”

The fugitive Evans was overtaken “on the road to the States” and, with his sweet young charge, hauled back to Central City. He was brought to trial for the abduction under a handy and sturdy tree to facilitate hanging. But Rose saved this gambling man by saying that they had been married!

The next day, November 24, 1860, Rose Haydee became, through marriage in earnest, Mrs. Thomas Evans ... they of Central City, Colorado.

https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=51835

Inscription:

"To Dad,
Well, here were are, sailing up the Taku Arm, in the wilderness of the Yukon, on the quaintest old stern-wheeler steam-boat you ever saw. The plumbing is the bowl and pitcher type, but it is all so much fun."

The southern lakes became a popular tourist attraction for Inland Passage travelers who could afford an excursion into the interior.

The SS Tutshi was constructed in 1917 to accommodate an increasing number of tourists. Tourism declined during WWI but later rebounded and the sternwheeler was expanded three times in order to meet the demand for staterooms. In 1925 the Tutshi was converted from wood to oil to preserve the quiet during night-time stops.

The gardens and hospitality at Ben-My-Chree became a popular tourist destination for the Tutshi. WP & YR purchased and maintained Ben-My-Chree as a tourist destination after the owner died in 1930.

There was a piano on the freight deck and in 1952, two of the waiters played for dances. Canvas, stored in a roll and suspended from the ceiling, was dropped down and pulled tight as a dance floor.

The low population and construction of all-weather roads in the 1940s led to the end of Yukon's paddlewheel era.

https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=248654