Before the War Between the States, many Georgia clocks were sold around the state in two categories: standardized clocks bought from Connecticut manufacturers by itinerant merchants who attached their own labels, and clocks made by Connecticut clockmakers who settled in Georgia communities and produced quality clocks there. Although such clocks were probably made in Augusta and Savannah, more is known about the Greensborough clock. Around 1836, Josiah Davis and his wife's nephew, Orville Barber, began making these clocks in Greensboro, Georgia, after selling their clock factory in Bristol, Connecticut, in 1835 and taking payment in clock parts. In Greensboro they established a business and began making clocks from parts made in Connecticut by either Seth Thomas or Birge and Mallory and sent south by train. Enslaved people assembled the clocks in a factory that was actually a two-room house in Greensboro. A Davis and Barber eight-day, triple-decker, Greensborough clock had a mahogany veneer case with a pilaster on each side and one painted scene below the face, and its brass works were operated by weights, with one weight operating the time train and the other the striking train. Some Greensborough clocks had simple cases, and some had wooden instead of brass works. No two Greensborough clocks are exactly alike. It is unclear when the factory closed, though some speculate that it was in 1844, when the Davis and Barber partnership ended. Surviving Greensborough clocks are very limited, extremely hard to find, and valued for their quality, beauty, and historical significance.