Turning the clock on the historic Chester County Courthouse back one hour due to daylight savings time takes more effort than one might think, writes Pete Bannan for the Daily Local News.
The clock tower has a rich history of nearly two centuries, which includes a legend of one of the builders’ ghost. Employees at the courthouse had to climb 60 stairs into the cupola to manually change the time on all four faces of the clock.
Employees Dave Moore and Ron Brenneman finished the task just before 8 AM on Monday morning.
“It’s like a grandfather clock,” said Moore, a county employee of more than three decades. “You can’t turn it back; you actually have to go forward.”
To avoid the chimes setting off during the work, Moore unhooked the ringer, which runs to the 1836 J. Wilbank bell. Then they had to manually turn the hour hand 11 times on each of its four faces.
“If we didn’t unhook the bell, we would get a lot of calls asking why the bell keeps ringing,” said Moore.
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