Editing Oliver Hazard Perry (section)

==Monuments==
The national monument commemorating Perry is the [[Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial]] in the village [[Put-In-Bay, Ohio]] on [[South Bass Island, Ohio]]. Its {{convert|352|ft|m|abbr=on}} tower, the world's most massive [[Doric order|Doric]] column, was constructed by a multi-state commission between 1912 and 1915.<ref name="interstate">{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/perrymemorialcen01inte |first1=Henry (1840–1921) |last1=Watterson | author-link = Henry Watterson |title=The Perry memorial and centennial celebration under the auspices of the national government and the states of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, New York, Rhode Island, Kentucky, Minnesota and Indiana |year=1912 |place=[[Cleveland]], Ohio |publisher=Interstate Board of the Perry's Victory Centennial Commissioners |access-date=October 22, 2011}}</ref>

Other monuments include:
* Memorial plaque, Trinity Episcopal Church, [[Newport, Rhode Island]], dedicated by Perry's widow on August 23, 1855, the 36th anniversary of his death.<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/annalsoftrinityc00maso#page/322/mode/2up/search/perry Text of Perry memorial plaque], quoted in George Champlin Mason, ''Annals of Trinity Church, Newport, Rhode Island, 1698–1821'', (Philadelphia: The Evans Printing House, 1890), p. 323.</ref>
* [[Perry Monument (Cleveland)|Perry Monument]], [[Public Square, Cleveland|Public Square]], [[Cleveland, Ohio]], monument and statue by [[William Walcutt]], dedicated on September 10, 1860, the 47th anniversary of the Battle of Lake Erie. Walcutt's marble statue was replaced with a bronze copy in 1929. The monument was relocated to Fort Huntington Park in 1991.
** Walcutt's marble Perry statue is on long-term loan to the Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial.
* ''[[Oliver Perry Monument|Oliver Hazard Perry]]'' by [[William Greene Turner]], Eisenhower Park, [[Newport, Rhode Island]], dedicated September 10, 1885, the 72nd anniversary of the Battle of Lake Erie.<ref>{{cite news | last = Olshan | first = Matthew | title = A tale of two statues: A reader's story about Newport's Perry monuments prompts an investigation by a Pennsylvania writer | page = A9 | newspaper = The Newport Daily News | location = [[Newport, RI]] | date = August 20, 2009 | url = http://www.newportdailynews.com/ee/newportdailynews/index.php | access-date = May 10, 2012 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120501003929/http://www.newportdailynews.com/ee/newportdailynews/index.php | archive-date = May 1, 2012 | url-status = dead}}</ref>
* ''Oliver Hazard Perry'' by [[Charles Henry Niehaus]], [[Delaware Park-Front Park System|Front Park]], [[Buffalo, New York]], dedicated on September 25, 1916.
* Perry Monument, [[Perry Square]], [[Erie, Pennsylvania]] designed by [[Paul Philippe Cret]], 1925, features a bronze copy after William Greene Turner's 1885 statue.
* Oliver Hazard Perry Memorial Gateway, [[Port-of-Spain, Trinidad]], dedicated April 1925. Captain [[Henry E. Lackey]], the United States Navy representative at the dedication, arrived aboard the newly commissioned [[light cruiser]] {{USS|Memphis|CL-13}}.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.history.navy.mil/ar/lima/lackey_he.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060813233215/http://www.history.navy.mil/ar/lima/lackey_he.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=August 13, 2006 |title=Papers of Rear Admiral Henry E. Lackey (1899–1940) |location=Washington, D.C. |publisher=[[U.S. Naval Historical Center|Operational Archives Branch, Naval Historical Center]] |access-date=September 2, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.historycentral.com/navy/cruiser/Memphis.html |title=USS Memphis|publisher=historycentral.com |access-date=September 2, 2011}}</ref>
* Perry Monument at Misery Bay, [[Presque Isle State Park]], [[Erie, Pennsylvania]] dedicated in 1926.
* ''Oliver Hazard Perry'' (bronze copy after William Walcutt), on the south front of the [[Rhode Island State House]], [[Providence, Rhode Island]], dedicated in 1928.
* Perry Monument, [[Perrysburg, Ohio]], dedicated in 1997, features a bronze copy after William Walcutt's 1860 statue.
* The reverse of the 2013 "Perry's Victory" [[Quarter (United States coin)|quarter]] shows [[William Walcutt]]'s statue of Perry (1860) with the Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial in the distance.<ref>{{cite web|last=[[United States Mint]]|title=Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial|url=http://www.usmint.gov/mint_programs/atb/?local=PerrysVictory|publisher=United States Mint|access-date=June 8, 2013|archive-date=March 18, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160318063628/http://www.usmint.gov/mint_programs/atb/?local=PerrysVictory|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Commodore Oliver Perry Farm|The family farm]] in South Kingstown, where Perry was probably born and later built a house, was listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 1982.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.preservation.ri.gov/pdfs_zips_downloads/national_pdfs/south_kingstown/soki_post-road-184_commodore-perry-farm.pdf |title=82000020 NRHP nomination for Commodore Oliver Perry Farm|publisher=Rhode Island Preservation|access-date=September 30, 2014}}</ref>
* A larger than life portrait of Commodore Perry hangs in the Executive Chamber of the [[Rhode Island State House]].

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File:Perrys Monument 2012.jpg|Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial (1912–1915), Put-In-Bay, Ohio on South Bass Island
File:Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial Vistor's Center.jpg|''Oliver Hazard Perry'' (1860), by William Walcutt, Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial
File:Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry Statue, Eisenhower Park, Newport, RI.JPG|''Oliver Hazard Perry'' (1885), by William Greene Turner, Newport, Rhode Island
File:Perry Monument - Presque Isle, PA.jpg|Perry Monument (1926), Presque Isle, Erie, Pennsylvania
File:Rhode Island State House Perry AD.jpg|Perry statue (1928), Rhode Island State House
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