The Crack No one recorded when or why the Liberty Bell first cracked, but the most likely explanation is that a narrow split developed in the early 's after nearly 90 years of hard use. In , when the city decided to repair the bell prior to George Washington's birthday holiday February 23 , metal workers widened the thin crack to prevent its farther spread and restore the tone of the bell using a technique called "stop drilling".
The wide "crack" in the Liberty Bell is actually the repair job! Look carefully and you'll see over 40 drill bit marks in that wide "crack". But, the repair was not successful. The Public Ledger newspaper reported that the repair failed when another fissure developed. This second crack, running from the abbreviation for "Philadelphia" up through the word "Liberty", silenced the bell forever. No one living today has heard the bell ring freely with its clapper, but computer modeling provides some clues into the sound of the Liberty Bell.
Speaker of the Pennsylvania Assembly Isaac Norris chose this inscription for the State House bell in , possibly to commemorate the 50th anniversary of William Penn's Charter of Privileges which granted religious liberties and political self-government to the people of Pennsylvania.
The inscription of liberty on the State House bell now known as the Liberty Bell went unnoticed during the Revolutionary War. After the war, abolitionists seeking to end slavery in America were inspired by the bell's message. The Meaning The State House bell became a herald of liberty in the 19th century. The Anti-Slavery Record, an abolitionist publication, first referred to the bell as the Liberty Bell in , but that name was not widely adopted until years later. Millions of Americans became familiar with the bell in popular culture through George Lippard's fictional story "Ring, Grandfather, Ring", when the bell came to symbolize pride in a new nation.
Beginning in the late s, the Liberty Bell traveled across the country for display at expositions and fairs, stopping in towns small and large along the way. For a nation recovering from wounds of the Civil War, the bell served to remind Americans of a time when they fought together for independence. Pennsylvania suffragists commissioned a replica of the Liberty Bell. Live TV. This Day In History. History Vault. Recommended for you. Who Were the Sons of Liberty? Statue of Liberty: The Making of an Icon.
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