HOLYOKE ? Builders in the post-Civil War era used rigging and pulley systems powered by oxen to haul up 4,000-pound slabs of granite to construct City Hall?s clock tower steeple. Completed in 1875, the clock proudly displayed the hours and minutes of…
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