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The lawyer, railroad magnate and investor Samuel Hill (1857-1931) originally funded this memorial to honor 3 World War I soldiers (later increased to 9) from Klickitat County killed in duty; the memorial was patterned after the ancient Stonehenge monument in Wiltshire, England, and built in Hill's material of choice, reinforced concrete. It took 12 years for it to be completed. Hill also funded the notable Peace Arch in Blaine, WA, dedicated to good relations between the U.S. and Canada. Hill selected the Stonehenge site to locate his own tomb, which overlooks the Columbia Gorge.

This war memorial was located within the Town of Maryhill, a 34-block site platted by Samuel Hill in 1909, a colonizing effort that failed. Initially, Hill hoped to attract fellow Quakers to the area to farm, but they did not come, in part due to the wind-swept aridity of the locale.

PCAD id: 15025