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Hello and welcome to This Day, a history show from Radiotopia. My name is Jody Avergan.

Now, this is part two of our look at the long history and very weird present of the historical marker. So last episode, if you didn't hear it, maybe go back and take a listen, but we talked about

how the world of historical markers really took off in the early part of the 20th century

and how there are now official commissions and so forth that lead to those signs that you see

when you're driving along the road.

Often that cast iron, same printing on both sides.

George Washington slept here, or there was a mill here, or, you know, whatever other kind of

interesting information you will find on one of those signs.

And now we are just going to talk about some of our favorite signs and examples that we

have found in our research.

Here, as always, Nicole Hammer of Vanderbilt and Kelly Carter Jackson of Wellesley.

Hey there. Hello,esley. Hey there.

Hello, Jody. Hey there.

So I have broken this up into three basic categories, but, you know, we can go through it and then talk about other stuff.

But I think there are controversial signs and signs that have actually been taken down or reworked because of their controversy.

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