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Oct 28, 1886:
Statue of Liberty dedicated
The Statue of Liberty, a gift of friendship from the people of
France to the people of the United States, is dedicated in New
York Harbor by President Grover Cleveland.
Originally known as "Liberty Enlightening the World," the statue
was proposed by the French historian Edouard de Laboulaye to
commemorate the Franco-American alliance during the American
Revolution. Designed by French sculptor Frederic-Auguste
Bartholdi, the 151-foot statue was the form of a woman with an
uplifted arm holding a torch. Its framework of gigantic steel
supports was designed by Eugene-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc and
Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, the latter famous for his design of the
Eiffel Tower in Paris.
In February 1877, Congress approved the use of a site on New York
Bedloe's Island, which was suggested by Bartholdi. In May 1884,
the statue was completed in France, and three months later the
Americans laid the cornerstone for its pedestal in New York
Harbor. In June 1885, the dismantled Statue of Liberty arrived in
the New World, enclosed in more than 200 packing cases. Its
copper sheets were reassembled, and the last rivet of the
monument was fitted on October 28, 1886, during a dedication
presided over by President Cleveland and attended by numerous
French and American dignitaries.
On the pedestal was inscribed "The New Colossus," a sonnet by
American poet Emma Lazarus that welcomed immigrants to the United
States with the declaration, "Give me your tired, your poor, /
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, / The wretched
refuse of your teeming shore. / Send these, the homeless,
tempest-tost to me. / I lift my lamp beside the golden door." In
1892, Ellis Island, adjacent to Bedloe's Island, opened as the
chief entry station for immigrants to the United States, and for
the next 32 years more than 12 million immigrants were welcomed
into New York harbor by the sight of "Lady Liberty." In 1924, the
Statue of Liberty was made a national monument, and in 1956
Bedloe's Island was renamed Liberty Island. The statue underwent
a major restoration in the 1980s.
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