This monument to Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, of Battle of Lake Erie fame, was originally erected in the center of Public Square in 1860. In this 1878, the monument had been recently moved to the middle of the southeast quadrant of Public Square, where it remained until construction of the Soldiers and Sailors Monument in 1892. Civil War commemoration having forced War of 1812 commemoration out of Public Square, Perry retreated to Wade Park until the Cleveland Museum of Art again displaced it. Today the statue stands inside the Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial visitors center at Put-in-Bay. | Date: 1878 | Source: Cleveland Public Library Digital GalleryDownload Original File
