Pennsylvania’s legislature ordered another bell from Thomas Lester and Thomas Pack in London in 1753. moved to current location October 8, 2003.displayed in glass pavilion on Market Street January 1, 1976-October 8, 2003.hung from metal "wishbones" in a case in the tower ground floor 1894-1898, 1916-1917.traveled extensively to expositions 1881-1894, 1915.suspended from a 13-link chain in the stair hall 1877-1881.hung from original timbers in tower ground floor 1873-1877.displayed on pedestal in the Assembly Room 1852-1873.*Note - the Liberty Bell cracked irreparably in 1846. hung on timbers in the top brick level of the original tower 1778-1852, rung on special occasions.Workmen took down the deteriorating wooden steeple in 1781, but the Liberty Bell continued to ring and/or be displayed from other locations in the building:
This connection with the creation of the United States began the State House bell’s transformation from utilitarian bell to famous symbol of liberty. This bell may have rung with other city bells to celebrate the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence on July 8, 1776. The Pass and Stow bell (Liberty Bell) rang to call: This bell bears an inscription from Leviticus 25:10: Proclaim Liberty Throughout All the Land Unto All the Inhabitants Thereof. It's this bell that later took on a more famous nickname - the Liberty Bell. By early June 1753 workmen raised Pass and Stow’s bell in the steeple of Independence Hall.
Local metal founders John Pass and John Stow recast the cracked bell. Isaac Norris II wrote that he had the “mortification to hear that it was cracked by a stroke of the clapper without any other violence as it was hung up to try the sound.” By Septemthat bell arrived in Philadelphia. Thomas Lester and Thomas Pack, of what eventually became known as the Whitechapel Bell Foundry in London, England cast a bell for the Pennsylvania Statehouse (Independence Hall today). A clock made by Thomas Stretch kept time from the building in this same period.
The Liberty Bell rang out from the Independence Hall steeple - and a separate clock bell rang on the Hall's roof - beginning in the 1750s. Liberty Bell, Clock Bell, and Stretch Clock - installed in the 1750s
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