A 130-year-old bronze bell that once called the Presbyterian congregation of Jamestown to services has a new home.

Cast in 1874 by A. Fulton's Son & Co., Pittsburgh, the bell, which could weigh up to 1,500 pounds, hung from the belfry of the former First Presbyterian Church on Jackson Street until the congregation dissolved in 1941.

The bell was then put on display in a courtyard at the Jamestown Junior-Senior High School, and there it sat until the recent renovations at the high school brought it to light again.

"Some time ago, it had been placed there for safe keeping and forgotten about," Jamestown Superintendent David Shaffer said. "Then, with the renovations coming about, the bell came back up into people's minds again."

The bell, while not directly in the path of construction work, would have to have been moved as work progressed, Shaffer said.

"We could have just put it back in the courtyard," he said, "but it really wasn't the school's bell."

That's when Tom Crawford, a lifelong Jamestown resident and former member of the old church, got involved. Crawford is a member of Jamestown Presbyterian Church on Liberty Street.