The statue arrived disassembled, and remained in its 210 separate crates for 10 months while construction of the enormous pedestal it was to stand on was completed.
The violence grew to involve around 1,000 people on both sides who also broke into houses and destroyed property.
Germantown was founded in the Pennsylvania Colony by immigrant Quaker and Mennonite families.
Historians have since questioned the convictions, which saw ten men hanged for murder – six in the prison at Pottsville, and four at Mauch Chunk in Carbon County.
On June 11th 1837, the Broad Street Riot broke out in Boston, Massachusetts, between Irish immigrants and existing American citizens known as Yankees.
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