Our Mission


Our Mission

Cabarrus Time Savers is a non-profit organization that has set out to identify and restore important public time pieces in our community. We consider tower and street clocks to be an important part of our history, in Cabarrus County. For many decades, people planned their day to day lives around clocks in the public eye. We are dedicated to preserving, repairing, and restoring these clocks.

The purpose of this blog is to bring you history of our local horology, news of our current projects, and provide a means to communicate with the community when we need help with historical facts and locating clocks and missing parts for these clocks.

If you would like to donate to our restoration funds or have questions about fund raising, please contact us at: cabtimesavers@yahoo.com

If there is a clock in our community that you feel is important or that may even be missing, please reach out to us.


Thank you!
Scott Schmeiser

NOTE: The pictures on this site, unless otherwise stated, are the property of Cabarrus Time Savers and are not to be reused without written permission from Cabarrus Time Savers.


Monday, August 27, 2018

The Clock Is Out - A Long Time Coming

On Saturday, August 25th, we successfully removed the Hotchkiss/Seth Thomas clock from the historic Cabarrus County Courthouse.  Everything went off without a hitch.  We are very excited!

I will post more pictures as I can get them.  In the mean time, here is the small group of us that got it taken apart and brought down piece by piece.  Thank you Monty Eudy for taking pictures along the way and of course we'll never forget you carrying that 110 pound pendulum bob down 3 flights of stairs.

Additional thanks to Phil Wright of the Tower Clock Company for coming down for the extraction, and of course Josh Weaver for volunteering to help do some heavy lifting and run to his house to do some quick carpentry.

Stay tuned!

Left to right
Monty Eudy, Phil Wright, Josh Weaver, Scott Schmeiser



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