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Episode: 3679 – July 3, 2025 – Proclaim Liberty Throughout the Land – The State House bell, now known as the Liberty Bell, rang in the tower of the Pennsylvania State House. Today, we call that building ...
Description: July 3, 2025 – Proclaim Liberty Throughout the Land – The State House bell, now known as the Liberty Bell, rang in the tower of the Pennsylvania State House. Today, we call that building Independence Hall. Speaker of the Pennsylvania Assembly Isaac Norris first ordered a bell for the bell tower in 1751 from the Whitechapel Foundry in London.That bell cracked on the first test ring. Local metalworkers John Pass and John Stow melted down that bell and cast a new one right here in Philadelphia. It’s this bell that would ring to call lawmakers to their meetings and the townspeople t...