As I was walking,

that Ribbino Highway,

I saw above me,

Endless Skyway I saw below me in the Golden Valley. The Statue of Liberty.

The Land was made for you and me.

The Statue of Liberty, a symbol of America is recognized as the Bald Eagle, the American

flag or the White House, stands out in New York Harbor bearing her torch, welcoming

tourists and immigrants with the American spirit of liberty. Her story is

complicated and many apocryphal tales abound of her sitting

disassembled for years while Americans try to figure out how to assemble her.

The truth is much more interesting.

Today on America's national parks,

the Statue of Liberty and the history of Liberty Island.

Here's Abigail Tregue. The Liberty Island, the home of the Green Lady overlooking New York Harbor hosted its first inhabitants in the year AD 994.

One of the three so-called oyster islands,

indigenous Americans found a major source of food

from the numerous shell beds in this place.

Over 600 years later, Henry Hudson landed in New York Harbor

and the now named Hudson River Estuary, Europeans colonized the area, including the

oyster islands. Occupation, war, and disease forced the Native Americans to move both

north and west. The island was claimed by a man named Isaac Bedloe, who called it Love Island

until his death when it was renamed Bedloe Island and then sold by his

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