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Freedom Statue site
The Statue of Liberty is located on Liberty Island in New York Harbor, and the statue is considered closer to New Jersey than New York, and was considered as part of the eighth Congress area in New York according to the American Geological Survey, but the island is not considered part of New Jersey, and was originally The island is known as Bedloe Island and was officially renamed in 1956 AD. Before the statue was built, it was the home of Fort Wood. The fort was built in the form of a star with eleven points, so that the statue is currently based on In the past, this island was a place for quarantine A smallpox in the eighteenth century, and in the other period was home to a summer’s (the Earl of Cassils), and was subjected to rent, and a place for refugees loyal to the Party of Britain, and a defensive bulwark.
History of the Statue of Liberty
The idea of creating a memorial to the independence of the United States of America was proposed in 1865 AD by the French Edouard de Laboulaye, and ten years later the sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi was commissioned to design the statue so that it would be finished in 1876 AD, and the statue was named “Freedom illuminates the world,” and the project was an idea of cooperation between America and France, as it was agreed that the American people would establish the base, and the French people would be responsible for building the statue itself.
Due to a lack of funding for the idea in the two countries, France raised money through public fees and lotteries, while the United States took advantage of plays, art galleries, auctions and matches to provide the necessary funds, as the poet Emma Lazarus wrote her famous book “The New Colossus ”in 1883 AD for an artistic and literary auction to raise funds for the construction of the pedestal, while at the same time in France, Bartholdi sought the assistance of an engineer to consult on the structural issues of the statue, and Alexandre Gustave Eiffel was commissioned to design the large iron tower and the structural structure Tha Wei, which allows the copper layer to move alone while the statue remains standing. From the statue in France in July 1884 AD.
The statue arrived in New York port in June 1885 AD aboard the French warship “Isere”, where the statue was divided into 350 individual pieces and packed in 214 boxes to deliver to America, and the statue was regrouped on its new base within four months, and on October 28, 1886 AD President Grover Cleveland supervised the gift-giving ceremony as a late gift to America’s Independence Day.
The shape of the Statue of Liberty
Standing at a height of 93 meters, including the base of the statue, the Statue of Liberty represents a woman holding a flame in her prominent right hand and a plaque bearing the date of the adoption of the United States Declaration of Independence (July 4, 1776 AD) to her left. The torch, which represents 8.8 meters, can be reached by means of an elevator of length 12.8 meters inside the arm, so that the elevator carries visitors to the roof, and there are also stairs to reach there.
