Cheboygan County purchased this property in April 1919 for the sole purpose of creating a veterans memorial park, and by July of that year work on the park was largely completed. The first memorial plaque, listing the names of those who lost their lives in the Great War, was placed on Memorial Day, 1925, and additional plaques were added after subsequent conflicts to remember Cheboygan County residents lost on the field of battle. Nearly 100 years after the park was constructed, a group of veterans formed a committee dedicated to improving and updating it, and through the generosity of the local community substantial renovations and additions were made to honor Cheboygan County veterans who made the ultimate sacrifice. The park is dedicated in memoriam to all who have served, especially those remembered there who gave their lives preserving freedom, including the county’s dead from the Spanish American War, World War I, World War II, the Korean Conflict, the Vietnam Conflict, and the Gulf War, Afghanistan, and Iraq, as well as war dogs and their handlers. It also especially remembers six Cheboygan men who died in Vietnam: Leroy H. Charboneau, Robert W. O'Donnell, David T. Connors, John Veihl, Steven B. Lavigne, and Richard L. Blaskowski.