Over 4.5 million people visit the Statue of Liberty each year.
Here are a few other secrets Lady Liberty holds.
The statue almost ended up at the Suez Canal.
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Chains at Lady Libertys feet symbolize the end of the Civil War.
40 blank discs on the pedestal represent a fundraising failure by American states.
Not a single state bit, so the discs remain blank.
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Bartholdi envisioned Liberty Island as a real pleasure palace.
But in fact, “Bartholdi had visions of what else should be on that island …
He was thinking of parks in Paris, where there are long lines of statues.
Its creators didnt realize Lady Liberty would turn green.
“They didn’t predict in any accounts that it’d turn green with the patina.
The only prediction that I saw was that it’d turn a darker red.”
Six months after she was opened to the public Lady Liberty was almost forgotten.
“It shows how quickly people lose interest.
Bartholdi would have been happy and vindicated that now the place is packed with people.”
The Statue doesnt wear the creators mothers facebut its quite similar to his brother.
Many accounts reiterate the idea that the statue was modeled after Bartholdi’s own mother.
A little boat on the water has maybe the best view of the statue.
The person who built the crown was the highest person in New York City at that time.
“You’re reliving that kind of experience,” she says.
She was Eiffels first artistic endeavor before his famed tower.
Soon after that was finished he went ahead and proposed theEiffel Tower.”
Suffragists hated her.
Ironically enough, the statue of a woman holding aloft a torch was infuriating to many women.
Suffragists protested Lady Liberty on opening day.
Women had to wait another 34 years to acquire that right.
Thomas Edison almost made Lady Liberty able to talk.
Edison wanted to put a huge phonograph in the statue so that she could speak.
“Luckily he didn’t do it because it would have been creepy.”
(Someone c’mon tellBill Murray.)
