Clock started at Asylum Hill Congregational Church

09/23/1897 |

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The clock was in place, and the hands were scheduled to be put into place today.

The article reported that “henceforth it will tell the hours to all who are in vision range,” from which it can be inferred that the workers started the clock as soon as the hands were in place.
The article reported that the clock had cost about $900 – probably. The first digit is not entirely legible, but 9 seems to be a good guess.

On June 12, 1875, the Courant published a letter from “N,” who asked that the bells at Asylum Hill Congregational Church not be rung incessantly out of respect for, among others, the “sick” and the “half-sick.”
Workers began to install the clock in the steeple on September 20, 1897.

Work on the new parish house will begin on May 22, 1903.

“In deference to the wishes of some of the people on the Hill, the clock has been provided with a device which may be thrown on or off the striking mechanism at will, that the striking of the hours may not disturb those who may be sick.”
“The strike has been modulated so that it will not be loud enough to be an annoyance.”
“In order to shut off the striking hammer it will be necessary for a man to climb about 100 feet by stairs and ladders.”

Unattributed, “Rev. Dr. Joseph H. Twichell Honored at Anniversary of His Church,” Hartford Courant, March 24, 1915, page 16.

Unattributed, “The Asylum Hill Clock,” Hartford Courant, September 23, 1897, page 16.

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