The creators of this site and the HistMarks apps are a very small group of old-school programmers who started working on computer-based projects and building computer programs before the creation of the World Wide Web and before the privatization of the Internet.

Our interests (as well as our feet) are planted in the real world: the world of people, documented events, and, of course, history. We cherish and value human activity, human intelligence, and human strength and ingenuity. As the world around us becomes more obscured by an ever more clouded sea of bits of data from unknown or unverified sources and analyses, opinions, and even conclusions produced by machines that have no means to discern truth from fiction and lack the common sense and instincts and intuition of most any young boy or girl on this planet, we prefer to focus on facts (but not just any facts).

The United States alone exhibits hundreds of thousands of historical markers (with many other countries producing their own). These markers stand in the central squares of small towns, in front of skyscrapers and highways in large cities, along less-traveled roads in rural communities, and everywhere in between. And all of these markers are human-researched, human-verified, and erected by small groups of people who want to preserve the past. To us, today, this means more than ever before and we are proud to make a small contribution through this Web site and through our HistMarks apps to bring this great wealth of real information to anyone who is curious.

Whether it is learning about the first discovery of gold in the small town of Dahlonega, Georgia in 1828 or reading the words of the Gettysburg Address delivered by Abraham Lincoln on November 19, 1863 following one of the deadliest battles of the Civil War or discovering the mostly forgotten tragic event of a young U.S. Park Ranger named Karl A. Jacobson who was fatally shot in a hunting accident in Acadia National Park on November 11th, 1938, historical markers connect us to the past in a real and tangible way that is as enriching as it is informative.