This is one of the backyard scuba stories I love so much. Nurit and I took Missy the Brave for a walk last weekend in the Chapman Woods area about a mile south of here. We started walking in the nice, eclectic, upscale residential neighborhood and came to a fenced area that looked like the back of a poorly maintained park or a weird institution of some type. So we walked around it to see what it was. in short order we came across a large boulder with this plaque on it.
The inscription:
The area is now run by a water district and peeking through the fence one can still see the remnant of the dam built almost 200 years ago by Joseph Chapman.
Very cool find.
Yes. The spelling of plaque is correct.