Grandfathers' Clocks: Their Making and Their Makers in Lancaster County * By D. F. MAGEE, ESQ. Whilst Lancaster County is not the first or only home of the so-called "Grandfathers' Clock," yet the extent and the excellence of the clock industry in this type of clocks entitle our county to claim

GRANDFATHERS' CLOCKS: THEIR MAKING AND THEIR MAKERS IN LANCASTER COUNTY, Whilst Lancaster county is not the first or only home of the so-called "Grandfathers' Clock," yet the extent and the excellence of the clock industry in this type of clocks entitle our county to claim special distinction as

Clocks: Their Making and Their Makers in Lancaster County" Papers of the Lancaster County Historical Society Vol. XLIII, No. 5 (1939) 2 Eckhardt, George H. Pennsylvania Clocks and Clockmakers: An Epic of Early American Science, Industry and Craftmanship, New York: Devin- Adir 1955. SOME RECENT SALES OF

first building. The Eberman clock drove four dials in the tower and activated a hammer to strike the hours on a bell." This building was to serve as the home of the Pennsylvania legislature �Figure 7. Camera obscura view circa 1815 of Lancaster's second courthouse. (Lancaster County Historical Society