The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 used the monument as a marker to map out the location of the first 8 Nebraska counties and to measure the distances to bordering states. Steps lead to the monument located 150 ft atop a bluff. Monument is engraved with "Nebraska" on the north, "Kansas" on the south, the year "1854" on the east and "40 degrees Lattitude" on the west side.
