- Description
- Information
First Central Phone Service in the Baytown area, 1918. Pictured is Miss Mary Mayfield who transferred from Barbers Hill in 1915. . At that time there was no exchange at all and only one line to the Crosby office. The switchboard was first set up in a tent and later installed in these quarters in Old Town at the corner of Lee Drive (present day, 2019) and Evergreen Road. Location confirmed by Darryl Jones.
- Author
- Sterling Municipal Library
- Posted on
- Friday 27 December 2019
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- 4984*3456
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- 2547 KB
- Keywords
- 1910s, Mary Mayfield, telephones, W.M. Truxaw, West Texas Avenue
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