Berkeley e-Plaques

Unlike traditional plaques, which are real objects, e-Plaques exist only on this website. They document our city’s past online. Written by you and by us, they present a serendipitous overview of Berkeley. With time e-Plaques will grow into a collaborative self-portrait of our city—a crowd-sourced mosaic of entries revealing how Berkeley became Berkeley. E-Plaques exist in relation to specific locations: actual places on our website’s interactive map. They document a broad array of sites where interesting things have happened, where compelling people from all walks of life have lived, or where unique natural phenomena exist. Texts about people focus on those no longer living.