what are some unusual facts about the statue of liberty?
She was built in France and shipped too the US in almost 300 pieces. Faces Ellis Island because she was to be among the first things immigrants would see when they were arriving via ship in the early 1900s. This symbolized the liberty America was giving to the immigrants.
It was built in the yard at Rue de Chazelles in Paris and took eight years to build. It was dismantled and created in 214 wooden boxes, which were then loaded on the French transport Isere. The statue weight 440,000 pounds, of which 176,000 is copper and the rest was made of wrought-iron. It sits on Bedloe's Island later changed to Liberty Island.
