Samuel Hill established a townsite on his own land on the Columbia River. He built a post office, hotel, general store, a museum and 10 miles of experimental paved roads. When Hill, a Quaker pacifist, visited Stonehenge in England, he was told that it was a place of sacrifice (now believed to have been a tool for Stone Age astronomers to measure time and tell seasons). During the 1914-1918 WWI, 13 young Klickitat County men died. Most perished in 1918. Hill likened their deaths to the sacrifices he thought had been made at the Wiltshire England Stonehenge and built this monument to their memory in 1918. There is an individual plaque with the name each Klickitat soldier or sailor who died. This is the first ever WWI memorial in the world. It duplicates in size and original form the Stonehenge of circa 1900-1350 B.C.
Posted on: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 04:10:08 +0000
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