A 700-pound bell cast in West Troy, New York, in 1868 is being restored and will be placed in a new unity bell tower at the Antioch Historical Society Museum. The First Congregational Church sold its building and grounds in 2010 and relocated to Pittsburg, transferring bell ownership by deed of gift to the Antioch Historical Society in 2021. Joseph Zamora stored the bell in his backyard for decades before it moved to the museum; he died at 103 a month before the museum’s bell tower groundbreaking. Community leaders attended the July 23, 2025 groundbreaking.
There would be a string and they then hook it, and you would just ride it up and down, and that was fun,
It was part of our childhood memories.
The First Congregational Church bell, cast in West Troy, New York, in 1868, will be restored and a unity bell tower will be built to house it.
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