Put-In-Bay Celebrates Reopening of the Perry's Victory and International Memorial Today

From the May 16, 2018, Toledo (Ohio) Blade.

Local dignitaries will be on hand at the Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial in Put-In-Bay, Ohio, on South Bass Island in Lake Erie.  It will open today, Saturday, May 19, 2018.

The 353-foot tall tower was off limits to visitors since last summer.  The museum and visitors center, outside of it, however, was open.  Workers cleaned and repointed the granite column and replaced broken tiles inside the structure.

A ribbon-cutting ceremony took place at 10 a.m. and three U.S. and state congressmen are to be in attendance.

The tower is to honor the dead of the Battle of Lake Erie as well as Oliver Hazard Perry's victory as well as peace between the United States and Canada for all these years since the War of 1812.

The project cost $2.4 million.

--Brock-Perry