The Concord Board of Trade Building is pictured in 1873 shortly after the dedication ceremony. Credit: JAMES W. SPAIN COLLECTION—Courtesy “How soft the music of those village bells, falling at ...
On a chilly winter day in 1881, a new bell rang out on the west end of the village of Spartanburg, signaling the end of one era and the beginning of another. Installed in concert with a clock atop the ...
SOME OF THOSE CHALLENGES. WE BEGIN TONIGHT WITH BREAKING NEWS AT SIX. THE CITY OF SPARTANBURG HAS ANNOUNCED A SETTLEMENT FOR THE LAWSUIT REGARDING THE CITY’S DOWNTOWN CLOCK TOWER. THE CITY SAYS THE ...
Inside Davenport City Hall's clock tower is a 1895 Howard No. 0 Special Striker. Its clockwork turns the hands of the public-facing dial and rings a 1874 bell every hour for the first time in recent ...
SPRINGFIELD — A place out of time, the historic Main Arsenal building at the Springfield Armory National Historic Site, now keeps perfect time. After years of silence, and months of missing hands on ...