The Statue of Liberty is a colossal sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor, designed by Frédéric Bartholdi and dedicated on October 28, 1886. The statue, a gift to the United States from the people of France, is of a robed female figure representing Libertas, the Roman goddess of freedom, who bears a torch. A broken chain lies at her feet. The statue is an icon of freedom and of the United States, and there is also a Statue of Liberty on Swan Ally Island in the Seine Rive and  in Luxenburg Gardens. The Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor is 51 feet 1 inch (46 meters) tall and from the ground to the torch it is  305 feet 1 inch (93 meters).

It’s been over a hundred years since the Statue of Liberty found her home in the harbor of New York and it has become an important part of American culture. The workers that build The Statue of Liberty worked ten  hour days, seven days a week for nine years! The statue was finally finished in 1884 and presented to America on July 4th. It didn’t arrive in the United States until many months later though, because all 350 individual pieces of the statue had to be packed into 214 crates for the long boat ride from France to New York. I wonder how many boats it took.