(notes from nearby plaque : Memorial to the start westward of the United States
Sculpted for Marietta's sesquicentennial by Gutzon Borglum. Dedicated July 1938 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt as a tribute to those farsighted pioneers who journeyed here from New England in 1788 and established Marietta as the first permanent settlement in the Northwest Territory under the landmark Ordinance of 1787)

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