From this site, you must imagine erasing the highway and the Peace Bridge. Here early Buffalonians came to enjoy their strategic location at the beginning of the Niagara River. Before or after logging your cache find, please stroll over to admire the handsome bronze statue of Oliver Hazard Perry, the U.S. Naval Commander. Here he oversees Lake Erie where he led the American forces against Great Britain during several battles in the War of 1812.
From Wikipedia: "Perry supervised the building of a fleet at Erie, Pennsylvania, at the age of 27. He earned the title "Hero of Lake Erie" for leading American forces in a decisive naval victory at the Battle of Lake Erie, receiving a Congressional Gold Medal and the Thanks of Congress. His leadership materially aided the successful outcomes of all nine Lake Erie military campaign victories, and the fleet victory was a turning point in the battle for the west in the War of 1812." The shipyard at nearby Black Rock at the mouth of Scajaquada Creek also built or refitted five naval vessels that helped Perry win his stirring victory at Put-In Bay near Sandusky, Ohio in September, 1813, giving the U.S. Navy control of Lake Erie.
Perry was the older brother of Commodore Matthew Galbraith Perry who was sent to Japan by Millard Fillmore and changed the world by opening trade with that island nation.
You know some of his famous words--his battle flag's, "DON'T GIVE UP THE SHIP" Also his battle report to General William Henry Harrison was famously brief: "We have met the enemy and they are ours; two ships, two brigs, one schooner and one sloop."
Congrats to Cayuga Crew for yet another FTF!