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They offered to have exact copies of the Liberty Bell made to provide impetus to the Drive. The Treasury accepted this generous offer, and Arthur L Bigelow, one of America’s foremost bellmasters, volunteered his assistance in designing the duplicate beUs.
Bigelow, a professor of engineering as well as bellmasiei at Princeton University, made an exhaustive study of the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia and a search for a foundry to produce the bells began. .
The United States lacked a bell foundry of the type necessary to produce these bells in time for the drive’s opening. A little town in France, called Annecy, where the art of bellmaking has been practiced for centuries, was selected for the task of making these bells and was welcomed by this little community, which served in the French resistance movement during the second World War.
Casting of the bells began in, late March at th# Anneney-leVieux, Haute Savoie, France, with the first shipment of thirteen bells arriving April 21.
The little community was excited about the project and poured the best of their craftsmanship and art into the molds that formed the Liberty Bells. They finished their first thirteen bells on time, and there was a warm welcome reception in New Jersey when they arrived April 21. Bellmasters claim that these bells because of their exact similarity to the original, reproduces perfectly the sound of the long-silent Liberty BelL
On Monday, June 12, the citizens of Rappphannock will see their Liberty Bell. They will hear its voice at special ceremonies which are being arranged by the American Legion.
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