Clocks Across Norwalk and Nearby Town Halls Talk Time
Route 20 travelers and downtown visitors see village clocks and city hall timepieces. Some watches like Willard and New London suffer ailments while Huron County Courthouse Milan Town Hall clocks keep accurate time. Newer clocks atop Norwalk city hall and Monroeville village hall blend accuracy with simpler style.
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New London
Huron County Courthouse
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Monroeville
New London Clock Strikes Time Misfit In Steeple
William Bryson, longtime caretaker, tends the First Methodist Church timepiece that halted recently after ten years of care. The 1879 town clock, built by the Howard Watch Co. of Boston, sits in a high steeple and is wound by hand. Bryson fears health limits future climbs to service it.
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New London
First Methodist
William Bryson
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Lakewood
Howard Watch Co
Boston
Milan Clock Ticks Away For S1 Years
Milan received a town clock in 1888 after the fire damaged town hall in 187? The hall built in 1876 was rebuilt higher with the clock added. Initially powered by weights, it became a daily wind and later electric. The clock rang the hour and possibly the half hour, though historian Wallace White finds no evidence of half hourly strikes.
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Milan
Wallace White
Hickel aims to restore buffalo in Interior seal
Secretary Walter J. Hickel plans to restore the buffalo on the Interior Department seal the modern design Udall ordered is being replaced. Senator Mark O Hatfield says he is greatly pleased with the move though he had derided the previous redesign as a Madison Avenue fantasy.
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