Statue of Liberty on Lake Mendota

Date

• February 1979

Summary

• The Statue of Liberty was built on Lake Mendota in February 1979 by the Pail and Shovel Party, which had gained control of the Wisconsin Student Association in the spring of 1978. The original statue was torched by an unknown arsonist ten days after it had been constructed. A new, improved statue was erected in February of 1980. That statue was rescued from a barn near Richland Center in the mid 1990s, and Hoofers helped restore it and used it in their Winter Carnival in 1996. The statue currently belongs to Dane County.