Date the cornerstone was laid on Bedloe's
Island:
5 August 1884
Source of Granite for the Pedestal: Leete's
Island, Connecticut
Source of Lime for Cement for the Pedestal Widow Jane Mine
688 Route 213, Rosendale, NY 12472, (845)
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Largest 19th century Concrete
Structure in the US Statue of Liberty Pedestal
27,000 tons, 13,300 cubic yards.
Below grade: 53 feet deep, 91 feet
square at the bottom, 65 feet square
at
the level of the original Fort Wood.
The pedestal above grade is
constructed of concrete walls from
eight to
nineteen feet in thickness that
continue the battered line of the
truncated pyramidal foundation,
tapering from 65 feet square at
grade to 43 feet at the foot of the
statue with a central
opening 27 feet square.
Date of Final Assembly of statue &
pedestal: 1886
Wind speed at which Statue sways 3 inches
(7.62 cm): 50 mph
Torch sway in 50 mph wind: 5 inches (12.7 cm).
Number of windows in the crown: 25
Number of spikes in the crown: Seven rays of
the diadem
(7 oceans of the World)
Hand with which Statue holds tablet: Left
Inscription on tablet: "July 4, 1776" (in Roman
numerals)
Day of America's Independence from Britain:
July 4, 1776
Height from base to torch (Bartholdi's design):
151' 1" (46.50m)
Height from base to torch (1984 Survey): 152'
2" (46.84m)
Foundation of pedestal to torch (Bartholdi's
design): 305' 1" (92.99m)
Foundation of pedestal to torch (1984 Survey):
306' 8" (93.47m)
Heel to top of head: 111' 1" (33.86m)
Length of hand: 16' 5" (5.00m)