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1918 Phone Exchange
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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.
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