The Liberty Bell visits Salem, Oregon
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The Liberty Bell visits Salem, Oregon
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In the summer of 1915 the Liberty Bell was brought to the west coast for the Panama Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco and as it made its way there it stopped here in Salem. Thousands of people came to see the Liberty Bell in Salem that day. Schoolchildren were presented with a small silk flag to keep. The Cherrian Band gave a concert in Marion Square Park The train arrived at Salem’s Oregon Electric freight depot at 2:00pm, which was located on Front Street, near where the Marion Street Bridge is today. To ensure its long time preservation, and it was transferred to the keeping of the National Park Service after World War II. In 1976 it was moved from Independence Hall to a newly constructed glass pavilion, and then to a larger Liberty Bell Center at Independence Hall National Historical Park in 1976. To learn more about the history of the Liberty Bell, and in particular more about how the Liberty Bell helped the Treasury Departments war bond drive in 1917, please visit smithsonianmag.com and search for “How the Liberty Bell won the Great War.”