Oh ye plaques of Boston

I have many reasons for loving Boston, but my favorite is the historical plaques. You can go pretty much anywhere and find a plaque commemorating anything from Paul Revere's famous ride to the Great Molasses Flood.

Until recently my favorite has been the "Here once stood a tree" plaque in Cambridge Commons:


I'm still trying to figure out if it's commemorating the elections or the tree.

Then recently I found this plaque in Brighton:




I love it. So they are saying, somewhere.......not here.........perhaps within the surrounding 20 miles, there were some cattleyards that were important to our national/local history.

Someday, I halfway expect to stumble across a sign that says something like:

Here, beside this fence post,
General George Washington's dog Sweetlips*
relieved himself daily.
1773-1775

While I await that absolutely perfect plaque displayed for all see, I will simply have to enjoy the plaque my friend gave me to proudly display in my own home:


* According to my extensive and in depth research (I google searched it) this is the actual name of Gen. Washington's dog during that time period. Talk about a lame name. Why couldn't he have gone with something like Pepperjack, Spitfire, Alvin, Simon, or Theodore?