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Published Sunday, February 07, 2010 in Local
Photo by Jeffrey Leo
The clock hands, and center glass portions, have been reinstalled at the 1904 courthouse. The rest of the glass will be installed over the next few days.
Courthouse clocks soon will tick again
The Newnan Times-Herald
The clocks are going back in at the 1904 Coweta County Courthouse in downtown Newnan, as the renovation work proceeds on the historic structure.
The mechanical parts of the clocks, and the hands, have already been installed, and the glass is being put back in piece by piece. The four clock faces have been filled for months with plywood.
New glass will be installed in the center of each clock face.
Some of the old glass will be retained. Many of the glass pieces were heavily damaged; much of the damage was caused by bullets of various caliber over the years -- in part possibly from people shooting at pigeons.
Plans are to consolidate the original glass into one or two clock faces, and to use all new glass on the remaining ones.
Though the clocks will be functional, nearby Newnan residents and workers won't be hearing the familiar chiming of the hours for a while. The clocks won't start regular operation until the courthouse project is completed.
The $7.5 million renovation project, which includes installation of an elevator as well as working to return the upstairs courtroom as close as possible to its original appearance, is set for completion this summer.
Funding comes from the Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax, which was approved by voters in March 2006.
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County not broke, not even close. They have a nice savings account with your money in it.
Posted by eugene at 9:21 AM
7.5 million??? And here I was thinking the county was broke.
Posted by Susan at 11:31 PM
The sales tax ends in 2012. And yes the voter's of Coweta did authorize the work and tax.
Posted by Tom Smith at 11:07 PM
Let's hope after $7.5 mil the shooting @ the birds is over. It may be time to quit being MAY-be-berry. It ain't your old 404 area code anymore.
Posted by Bladder at 10:20 PM
does anyone else remember in the late eighties or early nineties when we as voter's authorized a one time one cent sales tax increase to "restore" the courthouse and after the work was paid for the tax would be removed. Well guess what,it never was rolled back and the county continues to this day to collect the revenue!
Posted by mb at 7:41 PM
I'll help you pack! I can't wait to hear the bell ring again.
Glover for mayor!
Posted by Tom Smith at 7:06 PM
Sorry Bladder, but Gandy is off free and clear. Statute of Limitations ran long time ago. You gotta love him though....
Posted by eugene at 6:46 PM
I love the courthouse. I think it is beautiful. I can't wait until the work is completed.
Posted by K at 6:38 PM
True story. When we moved here the yard lite was out. Power guy comes to fix it, says"shoot it out and I'll fix it one more time. After that you have to pay". My intro to rural Georgia.
Posted by Yankee at 6:36 PM
hmmm, Shooting pigeons on the SQ, I say,"Round up the Usual Suspects!"
Posted by Bladder at 2:49 PM
Beautiful photo of the clock tower. Can't wait until it's done. I love walking around downtown Newnan, it's really pretty.
Posted by Dianne Olsen at 2:28 PM
It took them 3 years to build at a cost of over $40 million. We have probably dropped about the same in tax dollars on this old building that needs to be torn down. SPLOST is tax dollars!!!!
Posted by DC at 1:45 PM
Someone calling himself "yankee" is complaining about how long this project is taking.
Maybe if the idea was to tear down the courthouse entirely and start over from scratch, it would go faster. But that wasn't the idea.
Posted by exasperated at 1:41 PM
Think about it..they didn't have to take it apart piece by piece first.
Posted by Ol Timer at 12:07 PM
It took a year to build the Empire State Building, think about it.
Posted by Yankee at 11:47 AM
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Me wonders how long berfore it is shot?
Posted by Not a Good Ole'boy at 11:46 AM