Where is the Statue of Liberty located?
January 29th, 2009 | by admin |
The Statue of Liberty, or, more formally, Liberty Enlightening the World, was presented to the United States by the people of France in 1886. France intended it to be placed at the entrance of the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota but as the standard shopping mall format hadn’t yet been invented, the dock workers in New York City decided to just place it right where they took it off the boat. Plus, it was lunch time and they didn’t want to drive to Minnesota.
Instead it was placed on a small chunk of land in New York Harbor called The Island of Misfit Gifts - whose name was later changed to Liberty Island to not confuse it with the island of a similar name in the classic stop-action animated Christmas special, Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer.[credible source needed]
The statue now welcomes visitors, immigrants, and returning Americans traveling by ship. The copper-clad statue, dedicated on October 28, 1886, commemorates the centennial of the signing of the United States Declaration of Independence and was given to the United States to represent the friendship established during the American Revolution between Benjamin Franklin and Amelia Bartholdi (a lovely house wench working at the Viollet-le-Duc Tavern).[source needed]
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One Response to “Where is the Statue of Liberty located?”
By Science Project Guy on Mar 1, 2009 | Reply
How could I make a model of the Statue of Liberty for a science project? I’d like to make it out of cream cheese so when I’m done I would have a tasty snack to eat on the long bus ride home.