Workers built this ship-shaped stone veterans memorial during the 1930s, naming it for the Civil War-era USS Kearsarge. A mining drill stands in for a naval gun on the unusual landlocked vessel, tying Copper Country industry to naval and military remembrance.
Filed under roadside oddities: giant objects, odd monuments and things built for no clear reason.
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Source: waymarking.com/waymarks/WMCEKY_USS_Kearsarge_Ship_of_Stones_Kearsarge_MI