From the Summer Hallowed Ground Magazine, American Battlefield Trust.
Just five miles south of the Canadian border, on an isthmus near downtown Put-in-Bay, Ohio, on South Bass Island in Lake Erie, stands a 352-foot-tall monument towering over the town and lake. Free-standing, Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial is the world's tallest Doric column -- a plain, thick column that is a common sight at federal buildings throughout D.C..
The monument stands 47 feet taller than the Statue of Liberty when measuring the New York Harbor landmark from the ground to the tip of Liberty's torch.
It is indeed a striking sight, usually simply referred to as Perry's Monument. It is also the only international peace memorial overseen by the National Park Service.
However, it is so much more than these pieces of trivia.
--Brock-Perry
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