Clocktower Museum

In 1913, the family celebrated the 250th anniversary of its presence in north Stratford by building an Anniversary Tower on top of the old hay barn. David designed it, and both brothers worked on its construction. Five massive cast iron bells were placed at the top and inscribed with Boothe and Nichols genealogy. The brothers searched New England for a clock and acquired an 1815 handmade cherry clock from an abandoned Massachusetts church in exchange for a Eureka carpet sweeper. When that clock would not run, they installed a large Howard clock that remains in use today, with Westminster chimes and a pendulum extending nine feet into a pit below.