Liberty Bell Center Research Paper

It is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at the “Liberty Bell Center”. It weighs 2,080 lbs and the circumference is 12 ft. It is made out of copper and tin. It cracked when it was rung after it arrived in Philadelphia, and was recast by local workmen named John Pass and John Stow and their last names are on the bell today. The bell got its large crack sometime in the 19th century. A story claims that it cracked while rung after the death of Chief Justice John Marshall in 1835. It became famous in 1847 after a story that an aged bell ringer rang it on July 4, 1776, from hearing of the second Continental Congress's vote for Independence. From the fact, the bell did not ring on July 4, the tale was accepted as a fact. The city let the National
Park Service take custody of the bell, after World War 2.