Sam Hill’s Legacy, part 2

Sam Hill, creator of the Maryhill Loops Road, also built a full-sized reconstruction of England’s famous neolithic Stonehenge on the hills above the Columbia River. Nick and I visited it on our way home from our gorge adventure a few weeks ago.

Built as a tribute to the soldiers of Klickitat County who lost their lives, Maryhill’s Stonehenge is the first monument in the nation to honor the dead of World War I. A Quaker pacifist, Hill was mistakenly informed that the original Stonehenge had been used as a sacrificial site, and thus constructed the replica to remind us that “humanity is still being sacrificed to the god of war.’’

If you go, make sure to check out the information board, showing how people might have used it to mark the seasons.

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