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St Michaels Church Clock Tower Bells

St. Michael’s Bell Tower

By 1751, the English Colony of Charleston, South Carolina had outgrown the Parish Church of St. Philip’s. The Colonial Assembly divided the parish and built St. Michael’s with a large steeple to contain a ring of bells and a clock. The steeple also served as a navigational landmark for the harbor and as a look-out […]

What is a Clock?

A clock is an instrument used to indicate, measure, keep, and coordinate time. The word clock is derived ultimately (via Dutch, Northern French, and Medieval Latin) from the Celtic words clagan and clocca meaning “bell”. For horologists and other specialists the term clock continues to mean exclusively a device with a striking mechanism for announcing […]

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