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The Willard House and Clock Museum is located at the former farm homestead of the Willard brothers (Benjamin, Simon, Ephraim, and Aaron).The brothers made clocks there in the late 18th century, before they moved the business to Roxbury, where they became pillars of the emerging American clockmaking industry.
The farm, now operated as the Willard House and Clock Museum, had been built in 1718 by the Willards' third American generation. When Simon Willard was born, the house had just one room. The elder brother, Benjamin, who was 10 years older than Simon, learned horology and opened a workshop adjacent to the house in 1766. It is presumed that the ...
Willard House & Clock Museum Tower Clock in Grafton circa 1839. GRAFTON — For three generations, the Cheney family has been fascinated by the passing of time.
Aaron Willard (October 14, 1757 – May 20, 1844) [1] was an 18th and early 19th Century entrepreneur, an industrialist, and a designer of clocks who worked extensively at his Roxbury, Massachusetts, factory during the early years of the United States of America.
Verdin Bell and Clock Museum; W. Willard House and Clock Museum This page was last edited on 3 August 2015, at 06:09 (UTC). Text ...
Willard House and Clock Museum; Winslow Crocker House; Wistariahurst; The Witch House; Y. Yin Yu Tang House This page was last edited on 11 October 2023, at 16:40 ...
Willard House or Willard Homestead may refer to: in the United States (by state) ... Willard House and Clock Museum, Grafton, Massachusetts, NRHP-listed;
Among the Willard brothers, Simon Willard was the most renowned clockmaker. In 1788, he moved to Boston and soon regarding his brothers' workshops Simon's business became the leading one. Initially, Simon Willard's main economical support stemmed from the Tall Clock production but he didn't produce these models longer after 1802 when he ...