Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial

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Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial
93 Delaware Avenue
P.O. Box 549
Put-in-Bay, OH 43456-0549

Phone: 419-285-2184

Commodore Oliver H. Perry won the greatest naval battle of the War of 1812 on Lake Erie. The memorial--the world's most massive Doric column--was constructed in 1912-15 "to inculcate the lessons of international peace by arbitration and disarmament."

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