NPR Investigations: Off The Mark (original) (raw)
NPR Investigations: Off The Mark The U.S. has more than 180,000 markers telling the nation’s story. Here are the stories behind some of them, from across the NPR Network.
The historical marker that omits parts of the Young-Dent family's past is on the grounds of Fendall Hall in Eufaula. The back side of the marker says Edward Brown Young was a "banker, merchant and entrepreneur." The back side also says that he "organized the company which built the first bridge" in Eufaula and that his daughter married a Confederate captain in the "War Between the States." Andi Rice for NPR **hide caption
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Historical markers are everywhere in America. Some get history wrong
Pascagoula Mayor Jay Willis stands next to a historical marker that claims aliens came from outer space and abducted two local men in 1973. Laura Sullivan/NPR **hide caption
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Off The Mark: Markers for Space Aliens
Marking a 1956 plane collision over the Grand Canyon that changed aviation safety
Across the South historical markers are disappearing
For decades, site markers left out who committed Utah's Mountain Meadows Massacre
The American frontier is a two-sided story. Markers usually tell just one.
A historical marker in Alabama unearths a long-forgotten cold case
The debate to fix an outdated and incorrect Harriet Tubman historic marker
Historical markers in America: the good, the bad and the quirky
Historical marker unlocks the secrets of a long forgotten murder
A century-long effort to recast the Civil War
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