The original tower, built in 18867, was added to Prescott's
first brick school. It was an incon in the town until it was
destroyed in the 1935 school fire. The second tower was added
to the rebuilt school in 1937. This tower stood until 2003
when the School District removed it from the roof of the closed
middle school.
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The steel tower, clock, and bell were
donated to the Prescott Historical Society. The tower was beyond
repair, but the clock was painstakingly restored and temporarily
put on display in the Prescott Welcome and Heritage Center. The
clock rstoration was started in November 2003 and was complete by
April 2004. it took roughly 1,000 hours with 250 hours of machine
shop time repairing and remanufacturing parts for the clock.
In 2005, the Prescott Historical
Society committed to a construction project to build a new clock
tower in Prescott to house this historic clock and bell. The
fundraiser was kicked off during Prescott Daze in 2005 and one year
later (and over $125,000 in donations), the new tower was
unveiled.
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Photograph taken by Jeffrey H. Beltz
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