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Detailed Timeline of the Statue of Liberty
1865: Edouard de Laboulaye, a famous French historian, came up with the idea that France should build a statue to give to the United States to celebrate their success in becoming a democracy.
1870: The French sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi was appointed to build and design the Statue of Liberty, and began sketching the same.
1871: In order to decide on a site for the statue, Bartholdi visited the US and chose the New York Harbor as the location.
1875: The project was announced and efforts to raise fundraising for the statue began.
1876: Construction of the Statue of Liberty began.
1878: The work on the Statue of Liberty’s head and shoulders is completed and kept on display at the Paris Universal Exposition.
1881: American architect Richard Morris Hunt is chosen to design the pedestal.
1883: The assembly of the statue began in Paris as well as the construction of the pedestal.
1885: The Statue of Liberty arrived in New York City from France on June 17th, but the pedestal was not done and hence it was kept in storage for almost a year.
1886: On October 28, President Grover Cleveland officially unravels the symbolic Statue of Liberty at a ceremony.
1892: The U.S. government sets up an immigration station on Ellis Island. Millions of immigrants would pass by the statue as they entered the country for the first time.
1903: The poem ‘The New Colossus’ by Emma Lazarus gets inscribed at the base of the statue.