Getting To Know The True History of The Statue of Liberty

Getting To Know The True History of The Statue of Liberty

by Jeff Myers

The Statue of Liberty sits on New York's horizon, an icon that for over a hundred years has symbolized freedom and America. Today Woman Freedom stands cool and calm in the Hudson Bay, looking over Manhattan Harbor, but so many years after one might wonder where she came from and why she's here. To answer these questions we intend to delve in the History of the Statue of Liberty.

The Statue of Liberty was first intended as a gift to the Northern Americans from the French. It was to commemorate the hundredth year of the Declaration of Independence. The present also symbolized the closeness that had developed between the two nations in the Revolutionary War. Even though it was supposed to be completed in 1876, the opening plans did not work out.

The statue itself was commissioned to Sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, but the entire process was a joint effort from each side of the pond. Due to a lack in funds from both nations the project was initially delayed. Fundraisers were held to raise the required money in France to insure the statue would rise on the shore of America. In the meantime on the North American side, the famous publisher Joseph Pulitzer pulled out all of the stops with his newspaper "The World" to urge the North American folk step up to the plate. At last the money was raised to assemble the pedestal the Statue of Liberty would later stand on. The Statue of Liberty's history was still in progress though, and Lady Freedom herself wasn't completed for another 8 years.

Once the Statue was complete in France in July of 1884, it took almost a complete year to arrive on the coasts of New York Harbor. She made her 1st debut in June of 1885. She had traveled from France to America in 214 crates holding 350 separate pieces aboard the frigate called "Isere." Once the statue had eventually arrived in New York in many pieces it needed to be put together, no simple task for a monument so sizeable. After the 4 month process of constructing the final statue, she was dedicated on October 28, 1886. Although she was meant to be completed for the year 1876, casting back this is often seen as a minor speed bump in the lengthy history of the Statue of Liberty.

Today people principally flock to New York for Statue of Liberty tours. Even today she is an imposing presense and visitors can be gawk up at the large statue and pedestal, which from the base to the end of her torch measures 305 feet 6 inches in height. She also weighs a big 225 tons. For those that need to climb and peer out over the vast harbor that so many rejoiced in reaching, the staircase inside is 154 steps up to her head.



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