SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — Two tons of American history are situated less than two miles apart in Salt Lake City, and for a lover of the Liberty Bell, the monuments are all they’re cracked up to be.
“So few people seem to know about it,” said Susan Vaughn, a member of the Beta Sigma Phi service sorority that helped bring one of two replicas of the Liberty Bell to Utah. “You’re teaching history; that’s how it feels to me.”
One bell — cast in France and gifted by the U.S. Treasury in the 1950s to promote savings bonds — is on the first floor of the Utah Capitol, an area undergoing renovation.
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The second bell, for which the sorority sounded a call for donations, is normally perched in a tower at Memory Grove Park, but the replica has been temporarily removed for restoration…