Abbot Bell 1897

A larger bell for Westford Academy replaced the original bell cast by Paul Revere. Cast in 1897 by the Meneely Bell Company in Troy, New York, and given to Westford Academy by graduate John William Abbot, it hung above the academy’s second building, now known as the Roudenbush Community Center, for almost a century. On Palm Sunday in 1977, a storm knocked the spire to the side, and the bell was moved to its present location as an important piece of Westford history.

Westford, Massachusetts · United States