clock-factory

Updated: June 2, 2025

All the land East of Academy street was then in farmers' lots, and planted with corn, rye and potatoes now covered with large manufactories and fine dwellings. I little thought then, that I should have the largest Clock-factory in the world, within a stone's throw of my sleeping-place, as has since proved. Nothing of much importance took place during our campaign at New Haven.

Chauncey Jerome - History of the American Clock Business for the Past Sixty Years, and Life of Chauncey Jerome

She come in to see Katie th' other night; she'll listen to me. We lived in Newark, mum, an' had four rooms and a mahogany sofa and two carpets, till the strike come in the clock-factory, an' me man had to quit; an' then all winter oh, we're not used to the likes of this!" covering her face with her shawl and bursting into tears.

Francis Hopkinson Smith - Tom Grogan