Grand opening of Fair Plaza Parking Garage - Tyler, TX
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During the event, chimes could be heard from the garage’s clock, and speakers talked about the project, as well as the clock and the R.W. Fair Foundation, which donated the land for the parking garage.
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Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 04/18/2016
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Tyler Morning Telegraph
Toward the beginning of the event, City Manager Mark McDaniel noted that the Smith County Historical Society donated clock faces from the old 1909 Smith County Courthouse for the parking garage project.
The clocks went to Americlock in St. Louis, Missouri, where parts of the four original clocks from the 1909 courthouse were made into two complete clocks, according to a news release. Lexan replaced the broken glass, and new digital clocks replaced the inner workings, the news release states.
“For nearly half a century, the citizens of Tyler set their watches by the courthouse clock,” City of Tyler Facility Services Supervisor Gary Smith said in a news release. “And now it will be available for their grandchildren to use when they come downtown too.”