Historic National Road - Ohio
Madonna of the Trail Statue, OH

The Madonna of the Trail Statue commemorates the "Pioneer Mother of the Covered Wagon Days." The statue depicts a heroically proportioned woman in full stride with a babe in her arms and a small child clutching at her skirt. This is the first of eleven identical statues dedicated on July 4, 1928 by Judge (later President) Harry S. Truman. The other statues were erected in West Virginia, Kansas, Missouri, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Illinois, Indiana, Pennsylvania, California, and Maryland.