On the corner of Covington’s historic square is a clock tower. With its ornate white crown, delicate white spire and bold black face encircled with Roman numerals, the clock presides over the square as an iconic landmark.

It was built atop the red-bricked Newton County Courthouse in 1884, but its historical significance is not what attracts flocks of fangirls to its side, eager to snap selfies with its towering presence.

Rather, it is the memory of sexy vampire bad-boy Damon Salvatore (Ian Somerhalder) and his human love interest Elena Gilbert (Nina Dobrev) holding hands and leaping from the cornice of that clock tower in the second season of “The Vampire Diaries” as they fall both literally, and figuratively, in love.

The clock tower reappears throughout all eight seasons of “The Vam

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