‘Clock of the town’: Historic Morganton clock set to chime again

MORGANTON, N.C. — A historic clock is expected to bring its antique charm back to downtown Morganton on Monday.

In the 1920′s, the old McClintock clock was placed at the Morganton First National Bank to help people set their watches and clocks at home.

It’s been decades since the historic clock and its chimes have worked here at the intersection of Sterling and Union Street.

For more than 100 years, the clock has been a fixture in the downtown area and a GoFundMe raised more than $11,000 to fix it.

Work was done to repair the faces of the clock, which all stopped at different times back in the 1980′s.

Because the clock is so old, volunteers had to rebuild some of the parts to get the clock working again.

Volunteers told Channel 9′s Dave Faherty they were hoping to have the clock working again. There are only 50 of them in the U.S. It’s worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.

“I’ve had older people tell me a million times, ‘that’s what we set our watches by,’” Eric Storey, who owns a clock and watch repair shop in Valdese, told Channel 9. “The fire department, the police department – that’s the clock they went by. This clock was like the master clock of the town.”

The clock will light up at night and has a GPS system that will keep the clock accurate even when power goes out.

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