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BY Erik van Rheenen. Big Questions Origins History. Subscribe to our Newsletter! So when did the Liberty Bell get its famous crack? According to one of many stories, it first cracked back in , during the visit of the Revolutionary War hero Marquis de Lafayette. Another story holds that it fractured later that year, while tolling to signal a fire.
One of the most popular legends claims that the bell cracked during the funeral of Chief Justice John Marshall in , but newspaper accounts of the funeral do not mention such an incident.
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Using a method called stop drilling, they actually widened the crack , which is now 21 inches 0. But the repair wasn't successful. Another crack developed and the bell sounded no more. But that didn't mean it disappeared quietly. In the late s and early s, the bell went on occasional national tours.
In , politicians decided to hold a ceremonial ringing of the broken bell in hopes of drumming up support for World War I. The bell was actually tapped with a mallet. That led to the bell becoming the symbol of the immense fundraising effort for the war in the form of buying Liberty Bonds in and They also sent it on a national railroad tour, with a newfangled lighting system that kept it illuminated each night on its journey aboard the Liberty Bell Special.
Citizens flocked to see it. By some estimates, nearly a quarter of the entire country managed to set eyes on the symbol of freedom.
And these Liberty Bond drives were a smashing success, raising billions of dollars in war bonds to help the Allied Powers win the war. In , the Liberty Bell Center at Independence Hall in Philadelphia was opened, which is where the bell now resides. Over the decades, there have been numerous calls to repair it and make it whole. A scientist at steel giant ArcelorMittal claimed it would be rather simple to melt the bell, balance the various metals in it, and then recast it to make it usable, reported the Philadelphia Inquirer in But a representative for the NPS, which runs the center, said fixing the bell might be illegal and would serve no purpose.
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