Experts contacted by Jacksonville historian and author Wayne Wood concur: The cast-iron or steel bell is probably the ... hammer once hinged underneath. The clapper and other brace haven't been ...

Fremont • For decades, a cast-iron bell summoned children to school ... striking a single harmonic note with its clapper. Craig Chappell, 91, remembers that when he moved to Fremont in 1946 ...

Cast-iron, about 3 feet high, it is lightly crusted with rust and smaller than the famous Liberty Bell. Undecorated from ... Inside, the pin that the clapper hung from is intact, but empty ...

Fourth St. was damaged in October when the 700-pound cast-iron bell was knocked off ... Parts of the bell, including the clapper and cradle, will be shipped to Cincinnati so that the company ...

IT WAS ALL THERE, READY TO GO FROM MELVIN’S TOOLS TO CAST IRON HOG TROUGHS AND WOODEN WATER PIPES. THERE ARE HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS OF TREASURES UP FOR SALE. HERE IS THE BELL. BUT THIS 28 INCH ...

Since bringing the bell home, Murray MacEachern has fabricated a new steel clapper and a friend is making a steel yoke to replace the cast-iron one that was broken during the theft. Then they’ll ...

No one in Birchwood Village seems to know the full history of the 200-pound cast iron bell that rested in the basement of Village Hall for decades. What likely was once the civil alarm bell for ...

That cast-iron bell, which hung in the bell tower at Sixteenth Street Baptist Church from 1911 to 1997, was shipped to the capital to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on ...

COLUMBUS COUNTY, N.C. (WECT) - Detectives with the Columbus County Sheriff’s Office are hoping the public can help track down a massive antique church bell that was stolen right out of the owner’s ...

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