Historical Marker Ahead
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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...
One more skeet for Edmund Fitzgerald Day. Behind this historical marker is the famed Whitefish Bay. Today the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum in Paradise, Mich., rang the recovered bell 31 times, 29 for the victims of the wreck, once for all Great Lakes shipwreck victims, and once for Gordon Lightfoot.
November 11, 2025 at 5:37 AM
One more skeet for Edmund Fitzgerald Day. Behind this historical marker is the famed Whitefish Bay. Today the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum in Paradise, Mich., rang the recovered bell 31 times, 29 for the victims of the wreck, once for all Great Lakes shipwreck victims, and once for Gordon Lightfoot.
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It took one middling snowstorm to drive them out. Fuck off forever Nazi punks.
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Federal Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino and agents said to be leaving Chicago, sources say
Cmdr. Gregory Bovino was expected to depart Chicago within days, while most Border Patrol agents under this command would soon be redeployed elsewhere, three sources told the Tribune Monday.
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November 11, 2025 at 5:07 AM
It took one middling snowstorm to drive them out. Fuck off forever Nazi punks.
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The crazy thing about lake freighters is that they last forever. If the Edmund Fitzgerald hadn’t sunk 50 years ago, she’d probably still be hauling ore today. The last ship to see her, the Arthur M. Anderson, was still sailing as recently as last year.
November 11, 2025 at 3:04 AM
The crazy thing about lake freighters is that they last forever. If the Edmund Fitzgerald hadn’t sunk 50 years ago, she’d probably still be hauling ore today. The last ship to see her, the Arthur M. Anderson, was still sailing as recently as last year.
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Fun fact: Edmund Fitzgerald was a founding partner of the Milwaukee Brewers. The freighter as named for his father.
November 11, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Fun fact: Edmund Fitzgerald was a founding partner of the Milwaukee Brewers. The freighter as named for his father.
You can watch the ceremony on its Facebook page: www.facebook.com/share/16VXUd...
On November 10, 1975, the ore carrier S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior near Whitefish Point, killing all 29 sailors on board.
⚓️ Tonight, we honor the 50th anniversary and all other sailors lost on the lakes at our 26th Annual Lost Mariners Remembrance at the Dossin Great Lakes Museum.
⚓️ Tonight, we honor the 50th anniversary and all other sailors lost on the lakes at our 26th Annual Lost Mariners Remembrance at the Dossin Great Lakes Museum.
November 10, 2025 at 7:34 PM
You can watch the ceremony on its Facebook page: www.facebook.com/share/16VXUd...
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ALMOST FORGOT
Get involved with your state and local Democrats.
Chuck Schumer might be a bitch but Linda the Safeway Cashier is not, and she is ORGANIZED.
I have found state and local Dems (MoCo, MD) to be the exact antidote to... lackluster... national Dems.
YMMV. But give it a try
Get involved with your state and local Democrats.
Chuck Schumer might be a bitch but Linda the Safeway Cashier is not, and she is ORGANIZED.
I have found state and local Dems (MoCo, MD) to be the exact antidote to... lackluster... national Dems.
YMMV. But give it a try
November 10, 2025 at 1:01 AM
ALMOST FORGOT
Get involved with your state and local Democrats.
Chuck Schumer might be a bitch but Linda the Safeway Cashier is not, and she is ORGANIZED.
I have found state and local Dems (MoCo, MD) to be the exact antidote to... lackluster... national Dems.
YMMV. But give it a try
Get involved with your state and local Democrats.
Chuck Schumer might be a bitch but Linda the Safeway Cashier is not, and she is ORGANIZED.
I have found state and local Dems (MoCo, MD) to be the exact antidote to... lackluster... national Dems.
YMMV. But give it a try
Worth a watch for Edmund Fitzgerald day. Kicks off with Gordon Lightfoot said he wrote the song not just for this ship, but for the hundreds of ships that sank in the Great Lakes without popular notice (also, this corrects a few facts in the song) youtu.be/osAvIsgwIV0?...
Music Making History: Gordon Lightfoot & The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
YouTube video by Minnesota Historical Society
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November 10, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Worth a watch for Edmund Fitzgerald day. Kicks off with Gordon Lightfoot said he wrote the song not just for this ship, but for the hundreds of ships that sank in the Great Lakes without popular notice (also, this corrects a few facts in the song) youtu.be/osAvIsgwIV0?...
To get an idea of my interests, I’ve been quoted on the history podcast @thisdaypod.com and, this morning, on @tonyreast.bsky.social’s Indiana Pacers podcast. youtu.be/Kd0PROFW_Zk?...
How Indiana Pacers only scored 83 points in loss vs Golden State Warriors, Pascal Siakam rests
YouTube video by Locked On Pacers
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November 10, 2025 at 2:51 PM
To get an idea of my interests, I’ve been quoted on the history podcast @thisdaypod.com and, this morning, on @tonyreast.bsky.social’s Indiana Pacers podcast. youtu.be/Kd0PROFW_Zk?...
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On November 10, 1898, a shocking coup was executed in Wilmington, North Carolina, as white mobs led by former Confederate Col. Alfred Moore Waddell overthrew the city’s elected biracial government and massacred 60 or more Black people.
The Wilmington Massacre of 1898
A shocking coup was executed Wilmington, North Carolina.
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November 10, 2025 at 2:02 PM
On November 10, 1898, a shocking coup was executed in Wilmington, North Carolina, as white mobs led by former Confederate Col. Alfred Moore Waddell overthrew the city’s elected biracial government and massacred 60 or more Black people.
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For my last Lake Superior skeet of the evening: a while ago I deviated from the bit to do “Waterfall of the Night,” many of them in the Lake Superior region. Search that phrase for many beautiful and soothing falls!
Waterfall of the night: Eagle Falls, Eagle River, Keweenaw County, Michigan. Late April snow and ice melt far north in the northernmost peninsula of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula has these waters raging toward Lake Superior. (Note to new followers: this is a series I started 4 or 5 nights ago)
November 9, 2025 at 4:25 AM
For my last Lake Superior skeet of the evening: a while ago I deviated from the bit to do “Waterfall of the Night,” many of them in the Lake Superior region. Search that phrase for many beautiful and soothing falls!
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My first post involved Lake Superior! By the second one I came upon the idea of concentrating on historical markers and changed the name of the account to match.
For my first post, a tribute to a decommissioned lighthouse in my birthplace of Munising, Mich., located up a hill from Lake Superior so you knew land was near but not exactly how far off the shore this light was.
November 9, 2025 at 4:22 AM
My first post involved Lake Superior! By the second one I came upon the idea of concentrating on historical markers and changed the name of the account to match.
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Shipwreck tours and souvenirs are all over towns on the Lake Superior shore. A fountain at Munising, Michigan’s locally owned bank is built around the anchor of the SS Kiowa, which the lake took down in 1929. You also can ride a glass-bottomed boat to see wrecks in Munising Bay.
November 9, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Shipwreck tours and souvenirs are all over towns on the Lake Superior shore. A fountain at Munising, Michigan’s locally owned bank is built around the anchor of the SS Kiowa, which the lake took down in 1929. You also can ride a glass-bottomed boat to see wrecks in Munising Bay.
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The below skeet is wrong: the average seasonal snowfall in Michigan’s northernmost county is 241 inches. Extra lake effect from Lake Superior in 2024-25 helped drop 315 inches that snow season.
Now that winter storms are hitting the Upper Peninsula of Michigan it’s time to break out the big snow stick. Nobody’s is as large as the Keweenaw County (Mich.) Road Commission’s. The county gets an average of 187 inches of snow per year, with a record of 390 in 1979 (pic taken late April 2022)
November 9, 2025 at 4:13 AM
The below skeet is wrong: the average seasonal snowfall in Michigan’s northernmost county is 241 inches. Extra lake effect from Lake Superior in 2024-25 helped drop 315 inches that snow season.
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An earlier skeet referenced the discovery of iron ore near Lake Superior. Here’s the guy who discovered copper and launched a boom that lasted until the late 1910s. Upper Michigan has a lower population now than in 1920.
Douglass Houghton, a Michigan legend: physician, U of M prof, Detroit mayor, geologist who found copper in the Upper Peninsula, igniting a mining boom. He has two markers in Eagle River. He drowned nearby in 1845 at age 36, disrespecting Lake Superior by going out in a small boat. His dog survived.
November 9, 2025 at 4:09 AM
An earlier skeet referenced the discovery of iron ore near Lake Superior. Here’s the guy who discovered copper and launched a boom that lasted until the late 1910s. Upper Michigan has a lower population now than in 1920.
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This Lake Superior shoreline becomes the Apostle Islands Ice Caves in the winter, so you can stroll right in where you have to swim (if you have a wetsuit to handle the cold water) in the summer.
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(Apostle Islands National Lakeshore, Bayfield County, Wisconsin)
(Apostle Islands National Lakeshore, Bayfield County, Wisconsin)
November 9, 2025 at 4:06 AM
This Lake Superior shoreline becomes the Apostle Islands Ice Caves in the winter, so you can stroll right in where you have to swim (if you have a wetsuit to handle the cold water) in the summer.
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Bishop Baraga’s statue on the L’Anse reservation in Baraga County (of course), Michigan, was built so he could look out on Lake Superior’s Keweenaw Bay
If you love Alfred Molina as Doc Ock (and you should Spider-Man 2 was awesome) may I recommend his forebear, Bishop Baraga, the Snowshoe Priest
November 9, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Bishop Baraga’s statue on the L’Anse reservation in Baraga County (of course), Michigan, was built so he could look out on Lake Superior’s Keweenaw Bay
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Michigan acquired the Upper Peninsula to settle the 1835 Toledo War against Ohio, and thought they got ripped off. Until iron ore was discovered close to the Lake Superior shore.
These “discovery of natural resource” historical markers are fascinating because of how, by underselling the origin story, they end up letting you use your mind to fill in how impactful these events were in shaping the history and culture of their locations — forever.
November 9, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Michigan acquired the Upper Peninsula to settle the 1835 Toledo War against Ohio, and thought they got ripped off. Until iron ore was discovered close to the Lake Superior shore.
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Lake Superior was very pleasant when I stepped into it in September. It numbed my legs, of course.
Hello, and greetings from Lake Superior near Au Train, Michigan! According to this marker, the world’s largest freshwater lake was only discovered in 1622 by a Frenchman! Even as another sign says the area had an ancient Ojibwe portage trail! (It’s because the Lake Superior marker went up in 1957.)
November 9, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Lake Superior was very pleasant when I stepped into it in September. It numbed my legs, of course.
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Beyond the crew of the Edmund Fitzgerald, there are plenty of people whom Lake Superior has taken, even if they weren’t on the water. Like the two Northern Michigan U students who died as a result of stepping out onto a breakwater.
The Edmund Fitzgerald gets the November notoriety for @lakesuperior.bsky.social but any spot can be deadly, as shown by the marker for dead students and the fencing and the signs around a breakwater where the waves can kill you in Marquette, Mich. law.justia.com/cases/federa...
November 9, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Beyond the crew of the Edmund Fitzgerald, there are plenty of people whom Lake Superior has taken, even if they weren’t on the water. Like the two Northern Michigan U students who died as a result of stepping out onto a breakwater.
Last night I posted Lake Superior skeets as we hit the 50th anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Of course the Gordon Lightfoot song is a big reason we remember it. It’s a great song! Not just the words but how the music shifts behind them to fill in the scene. youtu.be/FuzTkGyxkYI?...
November 10, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Last night I posted Lake Superior skeets as we hit the 50th anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Of course the Gordon Lightfoot song is a big reason we remember it. It’s a great song! Not just the words but how the music shifts behind them to fill in the scene. youtu.be/FuzTkGyxkYI?...
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I am not going to let Schumer and 8 center-right Democrats bring me down. We won on Tuesday. We're gonna keep winning. Just keep telling the stories of what the Trump administration is doing and how it's making lives so much harder, about the corruption, the incompetence, the violence.
November 10, 2025 at 4:16 AM
I am not going to let Schumer and 8 center-right Democrats bring me down. We won on Tuesday. We're gonna keep winning. Just keep telling the stories of what the Trump administration is doing and how it's making lives so much harder, about the corruption, the incompetence, the violence.
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Jill Savitt, the center’s chief executive-We’re not putting our thumb on the scale,” she added. “But we’re telling you what the rights are. We’re telling you where in the world people have felt those rights weren’t being respected, & how they mobilized around it.” 🎁 🌎 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/a...
As Trump Recasts History, a Civil Rights Museum Sticks to a Messy Past
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November 10, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Jill Savitt, the center’s chief executive-We’re not putting our thumb on the scale,” she added. “But we’re telling you what the rights are. We’re telling you where in the world people have felt those rights weren’t being respected, & how they mobilized around it.” 🎁 🌎 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/a...
Presumably the Fell for It Again wing of the Democratic Party is unfamiliar with the arc of the Whigs, who had many similar beliefs but went poof into the dustbin of history when it kept insisting on compromise instead of fighting on the critical, polarizing moral issues of their time.
Ripon, Wisconsin: Two markers and a museum highlight the founding spot of the Republican Party. I couldn’t get inside to see how they explain the party’s journey from anti-slavery coalition to, you know, but history shows us anti-slavery didn’t necessarily translate into anti-white supremacy.
November 10, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Presumably the Fell for It Again wing of the Democratic Party is unfamiliar with the arc of the Whigs, who had many similar beliefs but went poof into the dustbin of history when it kept insisting on compromise instead of fighting on the critical, polarizing moral issues of their time.
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I will not only blame the Senate Democrats who are caving. I will blame them all. They needed to keep their ranks in order. If this happens, it's the most spineless political retreat imaginable and it will harm millions upon millions of Americans. Chickenshit, self-neutering nonsense. Cowards.
November 10, 2025 at 12:31 AM
I will not only blame the Senate Democrats who are caving. I will blame them all. They needed to keep their ranks in order. If this happens, it's the most spineless political retreat imaginable and it will harm millions upon millions of Americans. Chickenshit, self-neutering nonsense. Cowards.
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