![]() ![]() ![]() Due to severe wear and tear at the hands of Lake Erie’s weather, two bronze replicas were cast of the Perry statue in 1929. ![]() It relocated in 1913 to Gordon Park, where it spent a little time in front of the Cleveland Aquarium before moving elsewhere in Gordon Park. After a nearly twenty-year stay at Wade Park, the statue again moved to make room for the Cleveland Museum of Art. It stayed in storage a couple of years until it found a home in Wade Park in University Circle. The marble rendering remained there until 1892 when the Soldiers & Sailors Monument displaced it from the Square. Eighteen years later, it was moved to the southeast quadrant of Public Square. On September 10, 1860, sculptor William Walcutt’s Commodore Perry statue was dedicated and centered in Public Square. Cleveland was first to commemorate Perry, but many would follow. Many cities along the way chose to recognize and honor him.įorty-four years after the Battle of Lake Erie, Cleveland’s City Council and citizens resolved to honor Commodore Perry with a monument. Perry moved about the United States North Coast in life, duty, and commemorative spirit as a warrior hero. He died of yellow fever during a diplomatic mission to Venezuela in 1819 and was buried with honors in Port of Spain, Trinidad. Commodore Perry continued to serve in the United States Navy after the war. Perry’s actions during the naval battle, epitomized by his victory message, "We have met the enemy and they are ours two ships, two brigs, one schooner and one sloop," won him hero’s attention and the Congressional Gold Medal in 1814. The sounds of the cannon fire could be heard by Cleveland residents, drawing them to the shores of Lake Erie as Perry’s squadron defeated the British force on Septemto win control of the western Great Lakes. Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry defeated the British off the shores of Put-in-Bay, just 70 miles from Cleveland, during the War of 1812. ![]()
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