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Sunday, Februray 14, 2010

Crowne Plaza Williamsburg at Fort Magruder
6945 Pocahontas Trail - Williamsburg, Virginia

Program American Clocks in the South 1790 – 1860

Narrated by NAWCC Director Bill Bryan

Part I – presented at 11:15 a.m.

The DVD presentation was made at the NAWCC 2007 National Convention in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where a special exhibit was assembled on early southern clocks (tall case) and on mass-produced Yankee clocks with southern labels – “so-called Yankee clocks with a southern accent”. Bill shows with maps and diagrams the routes that peddlers used to bring clocks to the south from the north. They used land routes, railroads and ships to get the clocks to the southern market. One land route was down what is now Interstate 81 through the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Since some southern merchants did not like Yankees getting all this business (“foreign trade”), the legislatures passed laws that taxed the peddlers and their clocks. To get around this, some clockmakers such as Chauncey Jerome began some assembly in the south and started pasting southern labels on clocks. Sometimes the southern towns on the label did not even exist! Several clocks by Jerome with Richmond, Virginia, labels are shown. Members are encouraged to bring clocks with southern labels for the exhibit.

Part II – presented following lunch and the Business Meeting

The second part of the program covers other Yankee clocks with southern labels, such as locations in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, etc. Also featured in the latter part of the program are some of the interesting clocks entered in the 2007 NAWCC Horological Crafts Competition.

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