What is the current weight of Philadelphia's Liberty Bell, in pounds?

Philadelphia’s Liberty Bell currently weighs 2,080 pounds.

The bell was commissioned in 1751 by the Pennsylvania Provincial Assembly and cast in London in 1752 by Lester and Pack, a firm later known as the Whitechapel Bell Foundry. Its inscription comes from Leviticus: “Proclaim LIBERTY Throughout all the Land unto all the Inhabitants Thereof.”

The bell cracked during its early history and was recast twice by Philadelphia founders John Pass and John Stow. The distinctive crack visible today developed sometime in the first half of the nineteenth century, although the exact event that caused it is not known.

Its association with American independence grew over time. The bell may have rung when the Declaration was read publicly in Philadelphia on July 8, 1776, but no contemporary account confirms that story. Abolitionists popularized the name “Liberty Bell” in the 1830s, and the bell later became a national symbol of freedom.