Statue of Liberty National Monument
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| Location: | New Jersey , United States | ||
| Next city: | Jersey City | ||
| Surface: | 0.2 km² | ||
| Founding: | October 15, 1924 | ||
| Visitors: | 4,235,595 (2005) | ||
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The Statue of Liberty National Monument is a national monument in the United States in New York Harbor . It includes the Statue of Liberty on Liberty Island and the former immigration station on Ellis Island . The Statue of Liberty was inaugurated in 1886, the immigration station was in operation from 1892 to 1954. It is administered by the National Park Service .
history
President Calvin Coolidge used the authority conferred by the Antiquity Act in 1924 and declared the statue a national monument, then still under the name Fort Wood. In a proclamation in 1937 , President Franklin D. Roosevelt extended the monument to all of Bedloe's Island and in 1956 Congress decided to rename this island to Liberty Island. By proclamation by President Lyndon B. Johnson , the National Monument was expanded to include Ellis Island in 1965 and renamed the Statue of Liberty.
jurisdiction
Liberty Island and Ellis Island have been owned by the federal government since 1800 and 1808, respectively . Historical circumstances mean that both islands in Upper New York Bay are enclaves of New York State , surrounded by waters of New Jersey State . The rule, jurisdiction and sovereignty of the islands were the subject of a land grant in 1664, a provincial governor directive in 1680, and a state treaty between New York and New Jersey in 1834. In 1998 the Supreme Court ruled that the original parts of the islands were indeed belong to New York, but the reclaimed parts of Ellis Island belong to New Jersey. Both states have jurisdiction over their part of the islands unless federal law is applied. Both islands remain federal property, however, and states are not required to pay for the maintenance, preservation, or improvement of the historic properties.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Statue of Liberty. The national monument. National Park Service, 2000, accessed February 6, 2011 .
- ^ Ellis Island timeline. The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, 2010, accessed February 6, 2011 .
- ^ NPS Archeology Program: Antiquities Act Centennial. Retrieved April 19, 2019 .
- ↑ The Duke of York's Release to John Lord Berkeley, and Sir George Carteret, 24th of June, 1664. In: The Avalon Project. Yale Law School, 2008, accessed February 6, 2011 .
- ↑ Mitchell Moss: New York vs. New Jersey: A New Perspective. (No longer available online.) In: The Portfolio. Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, 1988, archived from the original on February 22, 2012 ; accessed on February 6, 2011 .
- ^ New Jersey v. New York 523 US 767. United States Supreme Court, 1998, accessed February 6, 2011 .