Stonehenge is the first monument in the nation to military personnel who gave their lives in World War I. It memorializes 13 young Klickitat County men and also stands as a lasting reminder of Samuel Hill, patron of this region. On his own land, Hill established a townsite with a post office, hotel, general store, nearly 10 miles of experimental paved roads, and the Maryhill Museum three miles to the west, and his tomb lies 50 yards away on the opposite side of the monument. The design duplicates in size and original form England's Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, dated 1900-1350 B.C. During the 1914-18 conflict, Hill, a Quaker pacifist, visited England, saw Stonehenge, and after being told it had been used for human sacrifices to pagan gods, said that the flower of humanity was still being sacrificed to the god of war on fields of battle. From that inspiration came this monument, which Hill built. The altar stone was dedicated on July 4, 1918, and the full structure was completed and dedicated on May 30, 1929. The text adds that the sacrifice legend is now generally discredited and that current belief holds Stonehenge was used by stone-age astronomers to measure time and mark the seasons by observing the sun and moon. Inlaid on top of the center altar is a bronze plaque honoring the soldiers and sailors of Klickitat County who gave their lives in defense of their country, and 13 bronze plaques on the inner columns bear the names of the county men who died in the Great War.