Everybody knows about the Statue of Liberty just off the coast of New York City. It is one of America’s most prized possessions. What you might not know is that there is another smaller replica statue that’s been here for decades. In this article, we will talk about the fascinating history of this statue.
In 1986, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the construction of the Statue of Liberty, a man named Gene Stilp decided that he would build a replica on a piece of an old railroad bridge in the middle of the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania.
Many things come to mind when thinking of Lancaster County: the Amish, center of PA Dutch culture, horse and buggy trotting alongside a bucolic country road. Being hotly contested territory in a violent, decades-long border dispute between Pennsylvania and Maryland is not one of them. But Lancaster County was exactly that in the 1730s during a conflict known as Cresap’s War.
