Uncle Sam Takes Up Residence Outside Danbury Railway Museum

DANBURY, CT — What's red, white, blue and back where it belongs?

That Uncle Sam statue, Danbury's 38-foot-tall icon of icons, took up residence outside the city's Railway Museum on Wednesday afternoon.

Mr. Stars-and-Stripes presided over the Danbury Fair from 1971 to 1981, at which time it was purchased by the Magic Forest Amusement Park in Lake George, NY. The city re-acquired the statue in December, and has spent the intervening months prepping the statue for its third act.

The city has a few more weeks of work on the installation before Uncle Sam is ready to greet his public.