Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial

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Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial

IUCN Category V - Protected Landscape / Seascape

Perrys Monument 2012.jpg
location Put-in-Bay , Ohio , USA
surface 0.1 km²
Geographical location 41 ° 39 ′  N , 82 ° 49 ′  W Coordinates: 41 ° 39 ′ 15 "  N , 82 ° 48 ′ 41"  W
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Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial
Setup date June 2, 1936
administration National Park Service
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The Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial commemorates the Battle of Lake Erie , in which Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry won the greatest naval battle of the British-American War . The memorial also celebrates the ongoing peace between Great Britain, Canada and the United States.

The 107 m high monument - the most powerful Doric column in the world - was erected from 1912 to 1915 in Put-in-Bay, Ohio , by a multi-national commission to "inculcate the lessons of international peace through mediation and disarmament." The remains of three American and three English officers lie under the stone floor of the monument. It is among the largest monuments in the United States (the Gateway Arch , the San Jacinto Monument, and the Washington Monument are larger). In 1915, construction was largely complete, but funding problems prevented the memorial from being properly completed. In 1919, the United States government took control of the memorial and provided additional funding. The official inauguration was celebrated on July 31, 1931. A new visitor center was built in 2002 for $ 2.4 million. The memorial is visited by 200,000 people annually.

Administrative history

The monument was founded by Franklin D. Roosevelt on June 2, 1936 as Perry's Victory National Monument ; rededicated to the National Memorial and renamed on October 26, 1972. Like all historic properties maintained by the National Park Service , the memorial was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 15, 1966 . It is the National Park Service's only peace memorial.

Structural problems

The pillar

The memorial was closed in the summer of 2006 after a piece of granite weighing 230 kg broke off the southeastern side of the viewing platform in June and hit a crater 96 meters below. Nobody was injured. After a structural assessment found the monument safe for visitors, it was reopened on August 26, 2006, but with a fence around the column. As of September 30, 2009 the memorial was closed for two years. The viewing platform, the column and finally the entrance and the rotunda were redesigned in three phases. The cost was estimated at $ 7 million. On July 12, 2012 the monument was reopened. Repair and cleaning measures were carried out again in the summer of 2017.

Navigation aid

Although it is not a classic lighthouse , the monument is listed by the US Coast Guard as the "Perry Memorial Monument Light" with the identifier Iso W 6s (common mode light white 6 seconds) . It has also been included in other lighthouse directories.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Light List Volume VII - Great Lakes - 2017 US Department of Homeland Security - United States Coast Guard (pdf; 3.15 MB; p. 98), accessed on October 2, 2018.
  2. ^ Perry Memorial Monument (Lake Erie) Light
  3. ^ Russ Rowlett: Lighthouses of the United States: Ohio ( English ) In: The Lighthouse Directory . University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill .
  4. ↑ Welcome to Perry's Victory
  5. ↑ The Lighthouses of Lake Erie # 7.2

See also

Web links

Commons : Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files