Hillsborough Town Clock - Photo Gallery

Pre Restoration Photos - March 30, 2002
[ Click Here ]	On Saturday, March 30, 2002, the Town Clock Committee visited the Town Clock to evaluate its condition. As is displayed in these photos, the condition of the clock has deteriorated over the recent years. These are photos from that visit.

Clock Face Restoration Photos - March, 2003
[ Click Here ]	Taken in March 2003, these photos show in detail the condition of the 250 year old Town Clock faces and some of the work that has been performed in the process to restore them. The Town Clock face restoration is being performed by Mr. Paul Gove of Vulcan's Forge in Hillsborough. From the design differences between the South face and the West face we surmise that the South face was made as part of an addition to the clock, probably c. 1806, possibly c. 1844. The South face has a single ring of bracing on the outer edge of the face's backside, while the West face has an inner and an outer ring. The West face shows us, we believe, the original clock dial size in the interior ring of the two ringed armature. That is, we believe the original clock had only two faces and they were three feet in diameter.

Clock Face Restoration Photos - March, 2003

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Taken in March 2003, these photos show in detail the condition of the 250 year old Town Clock faces and some of the work that has been performed in the process to restore them. The Town Clock face restoration is being performed by Mr. Paul Gove of Vulcan's Forge in Hillsborough.

From the design differences between the South face and the West face we surmise that the South face was made as part of an addition to the clock, probably c. 1806, possibly c. 1844. The South face has a single ring of bracing on the outer edge of the face's backside, while the West face has an inner and an outer ring. The West face shows us, we believe, the original clock dial size in the interior ring of the two ringed armature. That is, we believe the original clock had only two faces and they were three feet in diameter.

West Dial Restoration Photos - April, 2003
[ Click Here ]	This history of the clock is sketchy, at best, but we know that it originally resided in the steeple of the colonial, Anglican church, a single-story structure with an unpreposing steeple in which the clock would have been no more than thirty feet off the ground. After the Revolution it migrated to a market house, the design of which is a mystery, but which may have been high enough to warrant enlarging the faces. Its current residence, the Orange County Courthouse, was built in 1844 and was designed to house the clock at least fifty feet above the ground. If the market house didn't necessitate enlarging the clock faces, the courthouse did, and enlarge them they did, from three feet in diameter to five feet in diameter. In the West clock face you see the early design modified to the expanded clock face; an inner ring three feet in diameter, and a five foot diameter outer ring. In the South face you see a single, five foot in diameter ring. Thus our surmise.

West Dial Restoration Photos - April, 2003

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This history of the clock is sketchy, at best, but we know that it originally resided in the steeple of the colonial, Anglican church, a single-story structure with an unpreposing steeple in which the clock would have been no more than thirty feet off the ground. After the Revolution it migrated to a market house, the design of which is a mystery, but which may have been high enough to warrant enlarging the faces. Its current residence, the Orange County Courthouse, was built in 1844 and was designed to house the clock at least fifty feet above the ground. If the market house didn't necessitate enlarging the clock faces, the courthouse did, and enlarge them they did, from three feet in diameter to five feet in diameter.

In the West clock face you see the early design modified to the expanded clock face; an inner ring three feet in diameter, and a five foot diameter outer ring. In the South face you see a single, five foot in diameter ring. Thus our surmise.