Clarksville, Indiana - Colgate Clock - 2nd Largest Timepiece in the World

Address:
1410 S. Clark Blvd, Clarksville, IN [Show Map]
Directions:
On top of the Colgate factory, which is on 6th St./Clark Blvd one block west of US 31.
Phone:
812-283-6611
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Clarksville, Indiana - Colgate Clock - Threatened

Time is running out for this historic icon. Colgate-Palmolive Plant and Clock has been on the Indiana Historic Landmarks Foundations 10 Most [Endangered?] list since 2006. The site has been sold to developers and the plant will be shut down this year (2008).

The clock has been atop the circa 1890 building since 1924, is 40 feet across and ranks among one of the largest clocks in the world.

I've viewed it from the Kentucky side of the Ohio river and it is an awesome site to see not only because of its size, but that it still functions! How many town's clock towers do not? [Sandra Nantais, 07/07/2008]

World's 2nd Largest Clock. Clarksville, Indiana - Colgate Clock - 2nd Largest Timepiece in the World

On a "big things" photography trip to Louisville, Kentucky, I snapped this photo of the clock on the Colgate Palmolive factory in Jeffersonville, Indiana. It's the second largest timepiece in the world (the [Steph Mineart, 05/18/2005]

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