STATUE OF LIBERTY
1886
October 26, 1886, the
Statue of Liberty was dedicated on this day by then president
Grover
Cleveland in New York
Harbor. The statue was a friendship gift from the people of France
to the
people of the United
State of America.
The statue was originally
known as “Liberty Enlightening the World” prroposed by the
French historian Edouard
de Laboulaye and designed by the French sculptor Frederic Auguste
Barthholdt.
It is 151 feet high, the
figure of a woman with an uplifted arm holding a torch. The
frame
of steel was designed by
Eugene Emmanuel Viollet le Duc and Alexandre Gustave Eiffel. Effel
designed the Effel Tower
of Paris.
1877 Congress approved the
site on Bedloe's Island in New York Harbor. The statue was
completed in France in
1884 in May and in August of that year Americans laid the corner
stone for
the pedstal. A year
later, the dismantled Statue of Liberty arrived in New York in
more that 200
packing cases. The
copper sheets were reassembled and the last rivit was fitted the
28th October
1886.
The Statue of Liberty was
made a National Monument in 1924, and in 1856 Bedloes Island
was renamed Liberty
Island.
Ellis Island, adjacent to
Bedloe's Island, was opened as the chief entry station to
immigrants
to the United States of
America which were welcomed into New York Harbor by sight of “Lady
Liberty”.
Inscribed on the pedestal
is a 'sonnet' “The New Colossus” by american poet Emma Lazarus.
“Give me your tired,
your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched
refuse of
your teeming shore, send
these, through the golden door”.
Abstract by Harrison,
October 28, 2017, of, “This Day In History” world wide web.com
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