CLOCK TOWER UPGRADE

Why are the clocks missing in some historic photos? Since then it has been put on display at the Clock Tower. The Bell was donated to the Hong Kong Government to coincide with the centenary of railway services in Hong Kong in 2010. When did the Bell return to the Clock Tower?

The Bell was put on display at the concourses of Hung Hom Station and Sha Tin Station, and subsequently at Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation (KCRC) House in Fo Tan. Where has it gone since the Terminus was demolished? A museum inside includes murals from RomeвЂ™s history and restored original clockworks.John Taylor & Company, bell foundry in Loughborough in the United Kingdom. Get tour details.Д¬limb the 107 steps to the top of the Clocktower for a great views of downtown Rome. Public tours are offered seasonally group tours are available by appointment. Clocktower, became a reality in 1995, again through the fund-raising efforts of the Rome Jaycees. The most recent project, the creation of a museum within the Rome, Ga. In 1986, the Rome Jaycees raised more than $80,000 to repair the brick structure and provide landscaping on the grounds around the tower. Through the years several restoration projects have taken place. The bell has functioned properly since its original installation, but the first mechanism, an old hand windlass, has been replaced by a small electric motor. It is of genuine bronze, 32 inches high, and measuring 40 inches in diameter at its rim, which is 3 1/2 inches thick. The bell was made by the Meneely Bell Foundry of West Troy, New York. It is known by the manufacturer as their No. Its face is nine feet in diameter, the minute hand is four feet and three inches and the hour hand, three feet and six inches. Howard Clock Company of Boston, Massachusetts and was shipped to Rome on October 7, 1872, on the order of John W. The tower is surmounted by a 41 foot superstructure containing the clock works and the four faces making it 104 feet high. It is surrounded by a red brick tower decagon in shape, with a three foot space to permit an interior spiral staircase of 107 steps. The tank itself is 26 feet in diameter and 63 feet deep and had a capacity of 250,000 gallons. Transported to Neely Hill, these sections were hand вЂ“ riveted together to form the tank. The water tower is built of 10 foot sheets of iron, manufactured at the Noble Foundry. There were those who insisted such terrific water pressure from opened faucets, would вЂњknock the bottom out of a tin cup.вЂќ Needless to say, the issue passed, and in 1871 the water tower was built. The water tower was planned for the hill where the Clocktower now stands. This project was to have a cost of $100,000 вЂ“ the cityвЂ™s total revenue at the time totaled $21,000! The proposal became quite a political issue.

CLOCK TOWER UPGRADE

In 1870, the Noble family led a movement to upgrade the cityвЂ™s water supply with the proposed construction of a water tower.

Months later, General Sherman ordered the evacuation of Federal troops, the Noble Foundry destroyed, and most of the downtown area destroyed by fire.ДЇollowing this destruction and in an attempt to rebuild, Rome found itself badly in need of a waterworks. This activity became known to Federal forces which led to the occupation of Rome in 1864. When the South seceded from the Union, the Noble Foundry converted a large share of its production to cannon for the Confederacy. Here, he and his sons manufactured steam engines and other articles of iron and steel. He purchased property along the banks of the Etowah River in downtown Rome and built an immense foundry and machine works. of Cornwall, England, who had moved his family of six sons and several daughters, from Reading, Pennsylvania to GeorgiaвЂ™s Rome.

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