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Statue of Liberty: Then and Now

Copper statue given by France to the United States, dedicated in New York Harbor in 1886, the first sight of America for millions of immigrants.

Historical view
Statue of Liberty, historical view
Unveiling of the Statue of Liberty, painting by Edward Moran (1886). Edward Moran, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Today
Statue of Liberty, today
AskALotl, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

Key facts

Country todayUnited States
StatusStanding
Date1886
Nearest city on the mapNew York (about 4 km)
Location40.689° N, 74.044° W
Map showing Statue of Liberty in 1880Statue of Liberty
Border map for 1880. See the world in 1880.

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Who ruled this place

Derived from the border maps; each row runs until the next recorded border change.

PeriodState
500 BC–101 BCEastern North American hunter-gatherers
100 BC–499Unclaimed / no data
500–1491Eastern North American hunter-gatherers
1492–1499Munsee Lenape
1500–1599Delaware
1600–1649Montana
1650–1782New Amsterdam
1783–1814United States of America
1815–1879United States
1880–1913United States of America
1914–todayUnited States

Other landmarks nearby

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Further reading

Last updated 9 November 2026. Sources: border data from historical-basemaps, land and rivers from Natural Earth; texts written for Chronica Maps from standard reference works. How we make the maps.