Number 6: It Used To Serve as a Lighthouse
The statue was originally supposed to serve as a lighthouse for ships sailing into New York Harbor and 2 years after it arrived in the u.s. it actually became one for 16 years the statues lamp served as a beacon but it wasn’t bright enough and running out of ideas to fix it Bartoli offered to cover the entire statue in gold to make it brighter Congress said no to that idea since it would have been crazy expensive
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