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Liberty Flagstaff

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  • Location: Near Broadway, under a tree, west side of City Hall Building
  • Sculptor: Albert Weinert
  • Description: Marker and flagstaff
  • Materials: Gray granite
  • Dimensions: H: 1'10" W: 3'
  • Dedicated: June 14, 1921
  • Donor: Sons of the Revolution and the New York Historical Society
  • Inscription: HERE IN THE ANCIENT COMMONS OF OUR CITY / WHERE, BEFORE THE TIME
    OF OUR NATIONAL / INDEPENDENCE, / FIVE LIBERTY POLES WERE/
    SUCCESSIVELY SET UP, THIS FLAGPOLE OF 1921 / IS PLACED IN GRATEFUL
    REMEMBRANCE OF ALL / LOVERS OF OUR COUNTRY WHO HAVE DIED THAT / THE
    LIBERTY WON ON THESE SHORES MIGHT BE / THE HERITAGE OF THE WORLD.

    HERE THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE WAS READ TO WASHINGTON'S
    ARMY JULY 9, 1776.

    THIS IS A REPLICA OF THE LAST LIBERTY POLE

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