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

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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

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

was his home when he was Mayor of Lancaster in 1855. On the site, the present Bowman Building was built in 1912-'13. Into it were moved the Bowman Technical School on the second and third floors, and on the ground floor the retail watch and jewelry busi- ness of Ezra F. Bowman's Sons, which is now