Steel Alloy Alarm Bell - Eagle Lake, TX
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jhuoni
N 29° 35.359 W 096° 19.993
14R E 758305 N 3276249
Located outside of the Eagle Lake Volunteer Fire Department, 104 E. Post Office St.
Waymark Code: WMWCAG
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 08/12/2017
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Steel Alloy Alarm Bell
CS Bell Hillsborough O.
The Charles S. Bell founded the company in 1856.The CS Bell Co. cast steel alloy bells. (The only other foundry to ever cast steel alloy bells, was Naylors & Vickers in Sheffield, England. The Church of the Nativity, Huntsville, Alabama has a 54” diameter Naylors & Vickers Bell with the crest of the King of England cast into it.)
The first year, CS Bell Co. cast 1,000 bells, farm bells, church bells, fire alarm bells & factory bells. In 1889, they cast 20,000 bells, annually. They marketed their farm bells through Sears Roebuck catalogs. The largest bell cast was 54” diameter, bell weight 2,060. & 3,150 pounds with hardware; in 1921 cost $375.
The CS Bell Co. stopped casting bells in 1950.
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