When Matt and I drove back to his hotel from our trip, we passed by a river. We were shocked to see a random statue of liberty sitting on a very discreet rock. I was so intrigued that I looked it up and low and behold, I not only found the one we spotted, but did you know there are lots of replicas around the world!? I didn't. Here's a little write up about the one we spotted - it has a really unusual story...
- A 25 ft tall replica sits on the ruins of the late Marysville Bridge (erected on a platform (pier)) in the Dauphin Narrows of Susquehanna River north of Harrisburg. The replica was built by a local activist Gene Stilp on July 2, 1986; it was made of venetian blinds and stood 18 feet tall. Six years later, after it was destroyed in a windstorm, it was rebuilt by Stilp and other local citizens, of wood, metal, glass and fiberglass, to a height of 25 feet.
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