{"id":3503,"date":"2017-07-20T15:22:11","date_gmt":"2017-07-20T20:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newyorktour1.com\/blog\/?p=3503"},"modified":"2025-04-16T22:42:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T22:42:55","slug":"statue-libertys-story-timeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.exp1.com\/blog\/statue-libertys-story-timeline\/","title":{"rendered":"The Statue of Liberty&#8217;s Story in a Timeline"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>1865:<\/strong> French historian Edouard de Laboulaye suggests that France create a statue to give to the United States to celebrate its success in building a democracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1870:<\/strong> The French sculptor Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Auguste Bartholdi begins sketching the Statue of Liberty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1878:<\/strong> Statue&#8217;s head and shoulders are completed and displayed at the Paris Universal Exposition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1885:<\/strong> Statue of Liberty arrives in New York City from France.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1886:<\/strong> President&nbsp;Grover Cleveland&nbsp;officially dedicates the Statue of Liberty at a ceremony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1892:<\/strong> The U.S. government opens an immigration station on&nbsp;Ellis Island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1903:<\/strong> The poem &#8220;The New Colussus&#8221; by Emma Lazarus (1849-1887) is inscribed at the base of the statue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2011:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/worldhistoryproject.org\/2011\/10\/28\/125th-anniversary-of-the-statue-of-liberty-dedication\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">125th anniversary of the Statue of Liberty<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Learn more about the Statue of Liberty on our<a href=\"https:\/\/www.exp1.com\/new-york-tours\/statue-of-liberty-tours\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island Tour<\/a>!<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1865: French historian Edouard de Laboulaye suggests that France create a statue to give to the United States to celebrate its success in building a democracy. 1870: The French sculptor Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Auguste Bartholdi begins sketching the Statue of Liberty. 1878: Statue&#8217;s head and shoulders are completed and displayed at the Paris Universal Exposition. 1885: Statue<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":25293,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.exp1.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3503"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.exp1.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.exp1.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exp1.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exp1.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3503"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.exp1.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37337,"href":"https:\/\/www.exp1.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3503\/revisions\/37337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exp1.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.exp1.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exp1.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exp1.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}