Statue of Liberty Congress officially renamed Bedloe's Island as Liberty Island, a change advocated by Bartholdi generations earlier. The act also mentioned the efforts to found an American Museum of Immigration on the island, which backers took as federal approval of the project, though the government was slow to grant funds for it. Nearby Ellis Island was made part of the Statue of Liberty National Monument by proclamation of President Lyndon Johnson in 1965. In 1972, the immigration museum, in the statue's base, was finally opened in a ceremony led by President Richard Nixon. The museum's backers never provided it with an endowment
Charlotte Payne-Townshend and was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium, where her ashes were kept until Shaw's death in 1950. Their ashes were taken to Shaw's Corner, mixed and then scattered along footpaths and around the statue of Saint Joan in their garden. Charlotte Payne-Townshend was also a translator. Amongst other things she translated Eugène Brieux's play "Materrnité" for the London stage. It was put on by the Stage Society, at Daly's Theatre in 1910. Shaw Library, on the sixth floor of the Old Building, London School of Economics, was founded by and named after her. Charlotte Payne-Townshend Charlotte Frances Payne-Townshend (20 January