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STEEPLE BELL

Program
NYS Historic
Subject
Religion
Location
Spafford Corners, in front of church bell on Rt. 41 @ intersection of Rt. 41 & Bacon Hill Road, Spafford, NY
Lat/Long
42.804498, -76.264946
Grant Recipient
Town of Spafford
Historic Marker

STEEPLE BELL

Inscription

STEEPLE BELL
INSTALLED CIRCA 1874
SPAFFORD UNION
MEETING HOUSE
1838-1976
WILLIAM G. POMEROY FOUNDATION

This steeple bell was originally hung in the Spafford Union Meeting House near this site in the hamlet of Spafford Corners. According to the 1878 History of Onondaga County, New York by W.W. Clayton, the church had an organ and a steeple bell. Markings on the bell show is was made by the McNeely & Kimberly Foundry in Troy, NY, in 1874.