Case file · Sacred site
Maryhill Stonehenge
On a bluff above the Columbia, road builder Sam Hill raised a full-size concrete copy of Stonehenge as a memorial to the men of Klickitat County killed in the First World War. It was dedicated in 1918 and finished in 1929.
1918 CE · 45.69, -120.81 · status: official
The account
Hill had been told, wrongly, that Stonehenge was a site of human sacrifice, and meant his copy as a reminder that people were still being sacrificed to war. Its altar stone is aligned to sunrise at the summer solstice, and it draws solstice gatherings.