Admission to the Leatherlips Statue is Free at Scioto Park in Dublin, Ohio
- Open: Dawn to Dusk
- Location: (Map It) 7377 Riverside Dr. at Scioto Park in Dublin, Ohio
- Phone: 614-410-4550 (Audio tour by cell phone: 614-763-3100)
Leatherlips at Scioto Park in Dublin, Ohio stands 12 feet high. This stone monument to Chief Leatherlips looks out over what was once Wyandot land. The Dublin Arts Council in Dublin, Ohio had Ralph Helmick, an artist from Boston, create the structure out of limestone in 1990. The statue itself is a photogenic piece of art but a unique walkway atop the sphinx-type recreation of the chief’s head provides a nice view of the Scioto River at sunset. The chief was named Leatherlips because his word was a strong as leather. If only the white man’s word was as strong he may have lived longer. He was executed, nearby, in 1810 by his own people for signing over their lands in the 1795 Treaty of Greeneville.
