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Council accepts city manager recommendation to relocate historic clock tower for new joint government center
Summary
Spartanburg City Council voted to accept the city manager’s recommendation to relocate the downtown clock tower and move the historic clockworks and bell into the new joint City–County administrative building; the vote was recorded as 4–2 on Sept. 22.
Spartanburg City Council accepted the city manager’s recommendation on Sept. 22 to relocate the existing Morgan Square clock tower and return the original clockworks and bell to a new, larger clock tower that will be a feature of the joint City–County administrative building.
City Manager Chris Story told the council the clockworks and bell date to 1881 and that the staff recommendation is intended to restore the historical relationship between the municipal seat and the town clock. “The clockworks and bell date back to 1881,” Story said during his presentation, describing earlier moves of the mechanism and the community effort that erected the current tower decades ago.
Many residents urged the council instead to preserve the existing freestanding tower in place or to relocate it nearby. Dr. Bridal Price, a longtime local historian and former Morgan…
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