From the August 29, 2015, Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch by Steve Stevens.
Newport, Rhode Island-- There is a statue of Oliver Hazard Perry in Washington Square near the Colony House which was once Rhode Island's Statehouse.
Next to the statue is the Buliod-Perry House. Perry, a Rhode Island native, bought it shortly after his victory at the Battle of Lake Erie. The house was built around 1750 and has been restored and preserved by the Newport Restoration Foundation.
Perry died of yellow fever on another Navy ship in 1819 on his 34th birthday. He is buried in Newport's Island Cemetery near his brother, Matthew C. Perry, another famous Newport Navy hero.
Put-in-Bay, Ohio-- Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial, At 352 feet tall, it is the world's most massive Doric column.
--Brock-Perry
2012 marks the 200th anniversary of America's "Forgotten War," the War of 1812 that took place over three years, 1812 to 1815.
Battle of New Orleans.
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