This Day in History: Statue of Liberty - June 19, 2017 by Wendi Maloney

The Statue of Liberty arrived at its permanent home on Bedloe’s Island in New York Harbor at 1 p.m. on June 19, 1885, “snugly packed in the hold of the French transport Isère,” according to a New York Times report the following day. Multiple delegations of dignitaries, 20,000 citizens, and “every species of craft known to the sea” was out on the water to greet the Isère, so that the “water was gay with color for miles around.” ... [mehr] http://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2017/06/this-day-in-history-statue-of-liberty/