Memorials and Historical Markers

Images of memorial plaques and historical markers commemorating significant events and locations, often in natural settings.

The sign of the Dutch whaling station dating back to the mid 17th century, Smeerenburg Fjord, Amsterdamoya, Spitsbergen, Svalbard Islands, Norway.

KZ Memorial Bergen-Belsen Polish wooden cross 1945

Netherlands, Sint Eustatius, Oranjestad, Jewish Cemetery, used from 1742-1843, gravestones

Information pane; diagram of Anglo-Saxon royal burial ground, Sutton Hoo, Suffolk, England, UK

Memorial staette at the Rollwald memorial staette warehouse Rollwald

Monument, The Meeting of the Waters, song writen by Thomas Moore, Co Wicklow, Ireland

Memorial stone Veltheim Oestedt

The sign of the Dutch whaling station dating back to the mid 17th century, Smeerenburg Fjord, Amsterdamoya, Spitsbergen, Svalbard Islands, Norway.

Sign for the former concentration camp Plaszow, Krakow, Poland

Gedenkstein für die Opfer der DDR-Seegrenze an der Seebrücke Boltenhagen in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Memorial stone for the victims of the GDR sea border at the Boltenhagen pier in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

Old Gravestone, Inchagoill Island, County Mayo, Ireland

Memorial, plaque, in memory of the Jewish victims of Nazi barbarism, in this place there was the synagogue of the Jewish community of Oranienburg, it was desecrated on 9/11/1938 by the fascists and was destroyed in a bombing raid on Oranienburg, Sachsenhausen, Brandenburg, Germany, Europe

New York, Oswego. Fort Oswego historic marker.

'Please avoid photographing birds at nest and refrain from using tape playback and mealworms to attract birds' signs, Doi Pha Hom Pok N.P., Chiang Mai Province, Thailand, November

USA, Washington State, Seattle. Waterfront, Gold Rush historical marker

KZ Memorial Bergen-Belsen Jewish memorial made of stone inaugurated on April 15, 1946, on the first anniversary of the liberation. English inscription: Israel and the world are said to be reminiscent of 30,000 Jews who were killed in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp by the hand of the murderous Nazis. Hebrew inscription: May the earth never cover the blood spilled here.

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Wooden plaque on the small wine gate ian of the German Wine Route, Schweigen-Rechtenbach, Southern Wine Route, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, Europe

Memorial stone of slate with inscription, Concentration Camp Laura Memorial, 1943-1945 subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp, Schmiedebach, Lehesten, Thuringia, Germany, Europe

Information sign at Fort Petrie, New Victoria, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada

Burial marker of Nikolai Rezanov, prominent naval officer and one of the directors of the Russian-American Company, Krasnoiarsk, Russia. Brumfield photograph collection. Tombs & sepulchral monuments,Russia Federation,1990-2000. , Russia Federation,Krasnoiarskii krai,Krasnoiarsk.

Memorial plaque to composer Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy 1809-1847 in Eppstein. Taunus, Hesse, Germany, Europe

Fence, warning sign, sinkhole, fissure of the White Jurassic, underground seepage, Wental, Barholomä, Swabian Alb, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, Europe

The Copper Country Sign, 1972. The Copper Country is an area in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in the United States, including Keweenaw County, Michigan, Houghton, Baraga and Ontonagon counties as well as part of Marquette County

In remembrance of the donation of the land in Twin Falls, Idaho

a distance sign posted in winter near carrigaline, county cork ireland

Pfronten, landmark stone between Austria and Bavaria, Allgäu, Swabia, Bavaria, Germany

Commemorative plaque to Dr Fredy Stober, sports official, sports and skiing pioneer, Mt Herzogenhorn, Black Forest, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, Europe PublicGround, Europe

KZ Memorial Bergen-Belsen Jewish memorial made of stone inaugurated on April 15, 1946, on the first anniversary of the liberation. English inscription: Israel and the world are said to be reminiscent of 30,000 Jews who were killed in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp by the hand of the murderous Nazis. Hebrew inscription: May the earth never cover the blood spilled here.

Dwarf Anton tour in Alverdissen

Victims of the World Wars Memorial plaque Buchholz Nordhausen

TREMEZZO, ITALY, OCTOBER 05, 2023, Information board at the place of Mussolinis execution in Tremezzo at lake Como, Italy, Europe

Stone of the ancient border between the towns of Piansano (1537, Duchy of Castro) and Tuscania (Papal State), both currently municipality in the province of Viterbo, central Italy.

Grave marker for E.T. Hutton, one of sixty avalanche victims killed April 3, 1898 on the Chilkoot Trail, Slide Cemetery, Dyea, Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park, Alaska.

A stone marker commemorates the first airplane flight at the Wright Brothers National Monument in Manteo, North Carolina.

Information board about the Achanlochy Clearance Village near Bettyhill, Caithness, Scottish Highlands, Scotland, UK

Cuxhaven coastal heath, Holter Heath, information board, August, Cuxhaven, Lower Saxony, Germany, Europe

A sign still from olden Soviet times, Georgia.

Historic Columbia River Highway - Two-posted Interpretive Sign on the Historic Columbia River Highway. This is an example of an interpretive sign mounted on two posts. Oregon (45.539° N 122.244° W)

USA, Rhode Island, Block Island. Stone marker in front of Fresh Pond, elevation 78 feet, est. 1661. (Large format sizes available)

Rund um die Masurische Seenplatte - In Steinort Sztynort am Steinort-See erinnert eine Tafel an den Hitler-Widerständler Heinrich Graf Lehndorff 1909-1944, der hier im Schloß seinen Wohnsitz hatte / Around the Masurian Lake District - In Steinort Sztynort on Lake Steinort, a plaque commemorates the Hitler resistance fighter Heinrich Graf Lehndorff 1909-1944, who lived here in the castle / *** Around the Masurian Lake District In Steinort Sztynort on Lake Steinort, a plaque commemorates the Hitler resistance fighter Heinrich Graf Lehndorff 1909 1944 , who lived here in the castle Around the Masurian Lake District In Steinort Sztynort on Lake Steinort, a plaque commemorates the Hitler resistance fighter Heinrich Graf Lehndorff 190

Memorial plaque on rock honouring George Edward Edworthy, a pioneer in western Canada who farmed the land now protected as Edworthy Park in Calgary

Info sign, APC, Archaeological Park Cambodunum, Kempten, Allgaeu, Bavaria, Germany, Europe

Information panel, Friesland, Netherlands

Block of stone, travertine, with information on geology and colonization of the river valley, site where the famous Ehringsdorf Skull was found, Weimar, Thuringia, Germany, Europe

Memorial stone at the memorial to the former concentration camp in Woebbelin, near Ludwigslust, Mecklenburg Western-Pomerania, Germany, Europe

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Tri-State marker indicating where the states of Ohio, Michigan and Indiana meet

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Republic of Ireland, County Cork, University College Cork. A directions signpost at the University College Cork campus.

Information panel about Britten Pears Arts music events, Snape Maltings, Suffolk, England, UK

KZ Memorial Bergen-Belsen concentration camp Bergen-Belsen

Bad Salzuflen spa gardens sign

Record 390 snowfall in Keweenaw County, Upper Peninsula, MI

Information board Path of the Rocks of the Triebisch Valley

Outorga do Foral tile marking the city charter in 1266, Faro, Algarve, Portugal

Information board with the numbers of the burial trees in the Seelwald, Seelhorst City Cemetery, Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany, Europe

Milestone, Wienrode Treseburg

Victims of the World Wars Memorial plaque Buchholz Nordhausen

Canada, Nunavut, Resolute Bay, Erebe Bay, Beechey Island. Historic location where the Franklin expedition of 1845 over-wintered.

England, Cornwall. A granite milestone showing the directions and distance to Penzance and Lands End.

Marker at the Mason Dixon line separating North from South during Civil War at Pennsylvania and Maryland

Dwarf Anton tour in Alverdissen

Info panel, village view, summer, Dermbach, Rhön, Wartburgkreis, Thuringia, Germany, Europe,

Information board, Tetrahedron, former Prosper Haniel colliery, Batenbrock, Bottrop, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Vertical Portrait of Historical Leechtown Mining Town Sign in Kapoor Regional Park near Sooke on Vancouver Island, BC Canada

High water marks

Castrovalva, Italy A square signs says Weather today in multiple languages and points to the sky.

Memorial plaque for the people in Block 45 at beech forest Concentration Camp, now a concentration camp memorial, Weimar, Thuringia, Germany, Europe

Information board Weg der Blick in the forest near Sommersell

Moine schist rock fragment, part of the Knockan Puzzle at the Knockan Crag National Nature Reserve, Highlands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe

Road signs indicating the direction to various wine producers in Chateauneuf-du-Pape: France.

Castrovalva, Italy A square signs says Weather today in multiple languages and points to the sky.

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Visitor map of National Park Andersonville or Camp Sumter, site of Confederate Civil War prison and cemetery for Yankee Union prisoners

Old public telephone converted into a book box in Luebars, Reinickendorf district, Berlin, Germany, Europe

Pickleball courts and rules sign, Massapequa Park, New York.

Copenhagen, Denmark June 13, 2025 A sign in the former drug-permissive Christiania or Pusherstreet district saying drugs are no longer permitted.

Grave, Albert Fraenkel, Jewish cemetery, Herbert-Baum-Strasse, Weissensee, Pankow, Berlin, Germany, Europe

Able seaman 'Just Nuisance' plaque, Simons Town Harbour

Kuldiga, Latvia May 6, 2025 An information panel showing the location of the Kuldiga Castle from 1242.

Close-up of Foot and Mouth Disease notice

Mando, Denmark June 10, 2025 Directional signs in the rain point to cities like New York, Berlin and Copenhagen.

Silence and 'Please do not walk on the grass sign in English, Dutch, French, and German at the Beguinage in Bruges, Belgium, Europe.

Old milestone with kilometre distance to cities in Malaysia in a public park of Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia

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Marker at the Mason Dixon line separating North from South during Civil War at Pennsylvania and Maryland

Series 'connecting bridges' in various languages

Plaque to commemorate Thomas Lord founder of Lords cricket ground on his former home now a museum.

Image of the unveiling of the information board at the Hollandse Wipmolen 'De Kortrijkse Molen' (Stationsweg 105) in Breukelen, by the Deputy Doede Kok.

Interpretive sign, Harpers Ferry National Historic Park, West Virginia, USA.

NA, USA, Tennessee, Memphis, Graceland, Hand written meassages on the wall outside Graceland bid farewell to Elvis (Editorial Usage Only)

Footpath closed bridleway alternative route diversion signs in countryside at Sutton, Suffolk, England, UK

Magna Carta Monument at Runnymede Surrey England.

Shillim Resort, Shillim Maharasta, India. Architect: Khanna Schultz, 2014. Local Sign.

Info panel, Mayan sites of Tulum, 1200-1524, Tulum, Quintana Roo, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, Central America

Highlanders´ grave, Culloden battlefield, Highlands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe

Racist graffiti on community noticeboard, Upper Hutt, 1 May 2020, Upper Hutt, by Anonymous. Gift of an Anonymous donor, 2020. CC 0.

A signboard showing the tariff and entry prices at the office at the entrance to Mikumi National Park in Tanzania.

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