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Pennsylvania is Misspelled on the Liberty Bell. Share this: Because no clearly accepted spelling of the colonyâs name existed at the time the Liberty Bell was cast, the stateâs name on the bell is misspelled-Pensylvania. Found in: Trivia.
No one knows why the crack originally appeared. The Liberty Bell weighs more than a ton (approximately 2,080 pounds). It is made of 70 percent copper, 25 percent tin and small amounts of lead, zinc, arsenic, silver and gold. The Liberty Bell is a powerful symbol of the idea of freedom. It was rung at the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia on July 8, 1776.