“Another successful Massachusetts businessman, Thomas Arthur Emmons, . . who had roots in Kennebunk, bought an old farmhouse near Goose Rocks Beach (corner of the Goose Rocks Road and Route 9) for a summer house (1892) Emmons’ renovations included the addition of a tower on the barn. He owned a textile machinery factory in Lawrence. A clock in a tower there had not kept good time, causing his employees to be late for work. Emmons resolved to move the clock to his Kennebunkport home and hire its manufacturer, the Howard Clock Company, to install it. The company advised him to spend $1,000 to replace it with a better clock, which he did. His summer home came to be known as the Clock Farm.”
Joyce Butler in “Kennebunkport, the Evolution of an American Town”