LITTLE SISTERS OF LIBERTY REPLICA OF THE STATUE OF LIBERTY MEMORIAL PLAQUE
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Listing Details
Type of Memorial: Plaques On Stone
Access: Public
Wars Commemorated: REVOLUTIONARY WAR
Photograph By: JASON VOIGT
Submitted By: COURTESY OF HMdb.org
In February 1949, the Boy Scouts of America launched a two-year “strengthen the Arm of Liberty” campaign with a touch-lighting ceremony beneath the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor.
Jack P. Whitaker of Kansas City paid $3500.00 to have an original mold made. Friedley-Voshardt Company in Chicago made the standard-copper replicas. Each statue included more than 40 sheets of copper about the thickness of a nickel.
The statues were then sold for a reported $300.00 to each Scout Troop in 39 states.
Audrain County “Little Sisters of Liberty” was dedicated on Friday July 4th 1959 in Mexico, Mo. Circuit Judge George P. Adams made the dedicatory address.
SEE ALSO-LITTLE SISTERS OF LIBERTY REPLICA OF THE STATUE OF LIBERTY MEMORIAL
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