Liberty Square at Magic Kingdom – Did you know? Disney is known for their attention to detail in everything they do. From the movies to the parks, the amount of detail truly is amazing, but many don’t realize what certain things represent. One of my favorite areas in all of Disney is Liberty Square, due mostly to my all-time favorite attraction the Haunted Mansion residing there. Over the years, through research and conversations, I’ve learned about many different things within Liberty Square at Magic Kingdom and wanted to share them with you.
Have you ever noticed the pavement in Liberty Square? Down the center, the cement is brown in color. Do you know why? In Revolutionary times, there was no indoor plumbing. So in order to dispose of their waste, people would dump buckets out their windows into the streets. The color of the cement represents what the streets would have looked like with sewage having no place to go. Kinda gross to think about it, but interesting. Will you avoid walking on the brown pavement next time you walk through Liberty Square?
While walking through Liberty Square, you will notice a progression in the buildings going toward Frontierland. The Haunted Mansion was designed like the houses along the Hudson River in New York from the early 1700s. As you walk through you will notice there is an area of buildings with front doors and each with a two-digit address. If you put an 18 in front of the address, this is the time period when homes resembled those in Liberty Square. In addition to the progression with the way homes were built, it also flows like the United States, beginning in the East (the Haunted Mansion) and continuing West toward Frontierland.
In the Hall of Presidents, there are many different genuine presidential artifacts. Did you know that it’s federally recognized as a presidential museum? In addition, other than the White House, the Hall of Presidents in Walt Disney World is the only other place in the world where the Presidential Seal can be used. It took an act of Congress to allow Walt Disney World to use the seal.
While walking through Liberty Square, you may notice that the shutters are not hung straight on the buildings. The reason for this, during the Revolutionary War there was virtually no metal shipped to America from England as they feared the metal would be used to make bullets. The Americans took the metal from their shutters in order to make ammunition to fight in the war. They then used leather to hang their shutters on their homes. Over time, the leather would stretch and the shutter would hang at an angle.
In another upper window, you will notice two lanterns. The phrase “One, if by land, and two, if by sea” was coined by the American poet, Henry W. Longfellow in his poem, Paul Revere’s Ride. This was a signal to warn that the British were coming and it was by sea.
There are some more little tidbits about Liberty Square but I wanted to share these with you. Thank you for reading and I hope you learned something from this post. See you next time!
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