Liberty Bell 🔔

Was and out early this morning to beat the queues for the Liberty Bell- can confirm it was very quiet and there was no need to get there early, BUT it did mean I got the bell to myself (as wrong as that sounds).

The Bell was originally placed at the top of independence hall and rang out over the city. The bell was ordered from the Whitechapel Foundry in London, in 1751. But in first ring that bell cracked, so local metalworkers John Pass and John Stow melted down that bell and cast a new one in Philadelphia. Hence the names Pass and Stow on the bell.

The large crack that emerged across the bell was due to heavy use over a period of 90 years, and is the result of a repair job gone wrong. It means that nobody living today has ever heard the bell ring.

The bell was not originally called the Liberty Bell, it went on to become so via popular culture and the original media companies.Leggi altro