The bell atop American Fork City Hall has a long history in the community. Originally purchased for $211.17 in 1887, it was placed in the tower of the old City Hall at Main and Center Streets, where sorrow, joy, disaster, emergency, and other messages were relayed as its long rope was pulled. The bell was moved when the new City Hall was built in 1903, a difficult task because it weighs 1200 pounds. When City Hall was modernized in 1959, workers found that the bell supports were rotting, and the belfry was taken down. The bell was then given to the American Fork camps of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers for preservation, and they placed it on a monument in Robinson Park near the relic hall, where it remained for 46 years. When plans were made to restore City Hall, citizen groups believed the building would not be complete without the original bell. Although the bell is the property of the American Fork DUP camps and their bylaws do not permit donated artifacts to be returned, after consultation with the International Society of Daughters of Utah Pioneers it was decided that the bell could be relocated. On August 16, 2006, it was removed from the park monument and prepared to be placed once again atop City Hall, and a crane lifted the bell first and the new cupola second to crown American Fork City Hall again.