 | Brick Layers
Description: Engraved bricks and pavers as a fundraising tactic has had a re-emergence throughout the world. They are usually found as historical sites, schools, libraries, and even businesses. Sometimes they are dedicated to a fallen hero or to the friends of a library,...
Date Created: 04/13/2008
Category Managed: Donated Engraved Bricks and Pavers
Members: 9
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 | Epic
Description: A group created to manage the Epic Beings and Creatures category. The Epic category is for sightings (real or immortalized in statuary, art, or enactment) of beings or creatures of mythic or epic status.
Date Created: 04/12/2008
Category Managed: Epic Beings and Creatures
Members: 25
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 | Northcoast grangers
Description: We are the group dedicated to managing the Waymarking category for granges.
Date Created: 04/07/2008
Category Managed: Grange Halls
Members: 15
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 | More Historical Springfield Missouri Homes
Description: For those further interested in historic Springfield locations, here are some beautiful classic homes of the area.
Date Created: 04/04/2008
Category Managed: More Historical Homes Springfield Missouri
Members: 7
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| Missouri State University Historical Markers
Description: To allow the public to visit the some of the lesser known areas of our tight nit campus community.
Date Created: 04/04/2008
Category Managed: Historical Buildings at Missouri State University (Springfield Campus)
Members: 7
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 | The Battle of Springfield Historical References
Description: On January 8, 1863, Confederate troops under the leadership of General John S. Marmaduke, marched from Arkansas into Springfield. Union General Egbert Brown had only 24 hours notice of their advance and solicited all the strength he could gather from local...
Date Created: 04/03/2008
Category Managed: The Battle of Springfield Historical References
Members: 7
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 | High Water Markers
Description: Many towns have placed markers showing flood levels of water or other disasters that invaded their streets and buildings.
Date Created: 03/31/2008
Category Managed: High Level Marks
Members: 29
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 | Themed Art Barns
Description:
Date Created: 03/30/2008
Category Managed: None
Members: 2
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| Tree Huggers
Description: To document all things related to trees!
Date Created: 03/30/2008
Category Managed: Trees Versus Their Environment
Members: 5
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 | The Heralds
Description: To manage the Coat of Arms category. A specific, archaic language describes CofA. The one on the left would be:
Per cross Gules and Azur, a chevron Or, three dragons Purpure.
Originally, their purpose was to identify particular...
Date Created: 03/30/2008
Category Managed: None
Members: 7
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 | Chimney Hunters
Description: Dotted across the landscape of nearly every country in the world there are lonely structures that indicate days gone by. It is human nature to ponder what it was like in the immediate area when the lonely chimney was in use. The goal of this group is to document...
Date Created: 03/30/2008
Category Managed: Lonely Chimneys
Members: 27
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| Highway freaks
Description: Once we get officers our goal will be to mark weird highway signs like if an exit sign(real one) is painted on a billboard. Anything like that or very uncommon signs.
Date Created: 03/29/2008
Category Managed: None
Members: 4
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 | Pergolas
Description: This category's goal is to document the many interesting and historical Pergolas around the world. They provide shade and many have vines or other vegetation growing on them. Some are free-standing and some are attached to an existing building. Many have...
Date Created: 03/27/2008
Category Managed: Pergolas
Members: 7
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 | Blood donation
Description:
Date Created: 03/26/2008
Category Managed: Blood Donation Centers
Members: 20
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 | Toll house Searchers
Description: To record all the old toll houses which have survived and have other uses today. There are several types of toll house. These can be market toll houses, bridge toll houses and of course turnpike road toll houses. A lot of the old toll houses have been converted...
Date Created: 03/25/2008
Category Managed: Bygone Toll Houses
Members: 7
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 | Tree City USA
Description: The Tree City USA program, sponsored by the Arbor Day Foundation in cooperation with the USDA Forest Service and the National Association of State Foresters, provides direction, technical assistance, public attention, and national recognition for urban and...
Date Created: 03/24/2008
Category Managed: Tree City USA
Members: 5
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 | Legion Cairns and Memorials
Description: To Locate, and Waymark all of the Royal Canadian Legion`s - Cairns, Memorials, Plaques, and Cenotaphs around the World.
Date Created: 03/23/2008
Category Managed: Canadian Legion Memorials Cairns and Cenotaphs
Members: 16
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 | Woman's Clubs Managers
Description: to manage the Woman's Clubs category. Waymarkers do not need to self-identify as female to be a member of this group.
Date Created: 03/22/2008
Category Managed: Woman's Clubs
Members: 14
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| Off the Beaten Path
Description: Highlight interesting sites, both natural and man-made, that we run into all the time while driving, biking and hiking on back roads, trails and side streets.
Date Created: 03/21/2008
Category Managed: None
Members: 3
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 | Gators-Fiberglass
Description:
Date Created: 03/21/2008
Category Managed: None
Members: 2
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 | Masonic lodges
Description: To mark out with a short history all the Free and Accepted Masonic lodges. This will serve as a learning tool for fraternal history and as a marker for all lodges worldwide.
Date Created: 03/21/2008
Category Managed: None
Members: 4
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 | Vernal Pools
Description: We want to get as many Vernal Pools that exist waymarked. Vernal pools are breeding grounds for turtles, frogs, and many other animals. (Please see category description for more infornmation)
Date Created: 03/19/2008
Category Managed: None
Members: 4
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 | Historic Trees
Description: The purpose of this group is to manage the historic trees category. These are trees that will have some history behind them. Perhaps the tree was associated with a famous person, or it was witness to an historic event.
Date Created: 03/17/2008
Category Managed: Historic Trees
Members: 28
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 | Weather Radar Watchers
Description: Looking for locations of operational and non-operational weather radars throughout the world to see when it is going to rain!
Date Created: 03/17/2008
Category Managed: Weather Radars
Members: 17
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 | ZoltanSeesAll
Description: In your daily travels you must have seen these family owned, small Fortune Teller, Tarot Card readers. Most of them are open during the day, but there are a few that are open only at night. You can grab coordinates from the street, but a picture IS required...
Date Created: 03/13/2008
Category Managed: None
Members: 2
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