FIRST -- Telephone Exchange, Fort Stockton TX
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member Benchmark Blasterz
N 30° 53.019 W 102° 53.134
13R E 702123 N 3418622
The site of the first telephone exchange in Fort Stockton is marked with the state historic marker
Waymark Code: WMTWC9
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 01/13/2017
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member Zork V
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This nondescript private home at 610 Callaghan in Fort Stockton is nevertheless the historic location of the first telephone exchange in Fort Stockton.

Blasterz have seen a lot of telephone exchanges in cities around the country, but we have never seen one located in a private home. I guess that says something about how many people had telephones or wanted telephones in Fort Stockton in the first decade of the twentieth century.
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Date of FIRST: 05/01/1909

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