Ames Monument

Oil painting on canvas "Ames Monument" by Grace Chapman. The landscape is an open field with Ames Monument in the background. The foreground has some rocks and shrubs with a dead tree on the proper right. The blue sky has a few clouds.

The Ames Monument marked the highest point on the transcontinental railroad at 8,247 feet. The Union Pacific Railroad Company twice relocated the tracks further south, causing the town of Sherman that arose near the monument to become a ghost town. The monument was designed by Henry Hobson Richardson and dedicated to brothers Oakes Ames and Oliver Ames, Jr., Union Pacific Railroad financiers.