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The Historic Adair County Courthouse Clock 2014-07-03 - Clocktower, Historic Adair County Courthouse, Columbia, KY - Photo by Letisha Paris. Tisha Paris and son Gary Crawford climbed to the topmost room, in the Historic Adair County Courthouse, 500 Public Square, to discover this huge clock mechanism and some great views out the windows in the clockfaces. The openings were designed to allow keepers of the clock to manually adjust the hands. It was the lack of an opening which prevented, some 65 years ago, the installation of glass faces, which could have been illuminated. In recent memory, Carl Hutchison was keeper of the clock for several decades. He was paid the princely sum of $50 for the service. His unpaid assistant, Joe Moore, helped for many years, and, to this day, has a huge store of knowledge about the courthouse, the clocks, and the tower. Permalink | Comments?

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