Tall Case Clock

The movement in this western Maryland clock was made by John George Adam Woltz (1744-1812). "George Woltz," as he signed most of his works, was born in York, Pennsylvania, to one of the many Swiss and German immigrant families who, fleeing religious and civil persecution in the Rhineland, settled there in the 1730s . Woltz later followed the tide of German and rural British immigrants from Pennsylvania into the new lands of the southern backcountry. He settled at Elizabeth-town, Maryland, founded in 1762 at a point only a few miles south of the Pennsylvania border and the same distance north from Virginia (now West Virginia). Eventually renamed Hagerstown, the community's position on the Great Wagon Road that led from eastern Pennsylvania into the Valley of Virginia made it an important market center at an early date. Woltz remained in Hagerstown for the rest of his life, where he was active in public affairs.
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