President William Howard Taft signed a bill in 1908 to authorize a monument in honor of those soldiers who died serving under Generals St. Clair and Wayne. Dedicated on July 1, 1913, the base of the 101 foot monument holds the bones of the fallen soldiers who died in the battles at Ft. Recovery. The nine-foot tall statue depicts a frontiersman facing west to the beautiful unsettled land into which he triumphed.