The History of the Liberty statue has its beginning in 1865, when Edouard de Laboulaye raised with the idea of a monument for the United States. It was 10 years later when, at first Frederic Auguste Bartholdi was told to design a sculpture, which would commemorate the centennial of the American Declaration of Independence. The statue would be named “Liberty Enlightening World”. French took place in the idea of building the monument, so it made both countries get into a better relationship. It was assigned for American people to build the pedestal of it, and French people to build the statue itself an assembly it in the United States.

But there were huge funds problems, and the process was developing very slowly, so Emma Lazarus wrote the sonnet “The New Colossus” for art and literary people to help with it, and it was worth it. The process began to go on faster. Meanwhile, France assigned Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, the designer of the Eiffel Tower to build that massive statue. Architect Richard Morris Hunt designed the Statue granite pedestal.

The statue was divided in between 350 individual pieces and it took four months to place them all on top of the pedestal. The construction of it finished in July 1884, and arrived at New York Harbor in June 1885. The Statue was finally inaugurated on October 28^th 1886, and it is situated on the Liberty Island close to New York City, but what nobody knows is that the statue actually belongs to New Jersey State, not to New York although it is also really close to. You can only get there by taking a boat from the Liberty Harbor.

Since then it has been a symbol of inspiration for all the immigrants that arrived nearby. Its own name says it gave inspiration of “Liberty” to people who sailed passed on their way to America, The Land of Freedom.